Tag Archives: Education and Skills

Speech by Rt Hon Nick Clegg MP to launch the Social Market Foundation's Commission on Inequality in Education on 12 January 2016. Check against delivery.

The commission, launched this morning by its chair, former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, is an independent, cross-party initiative which is examining the causes and effects of inequality in education at primary and secondary levels in England and Wales.

Low wages rather than inadequate training are to blame for the STEM skills gap, according to a new report released today by the Social Market Foundation and the University of Warwick's Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).

The Social Market Foundation's response to the Summer Budget 2015. Here we look at the OBR's update to see whether the Chancellor's spending plans are on track, we examine the Living Wage announcement and see if this conflicts with changes to tax credits, we look into the changes to Higher Education funding and apprenticeships, and the government's green paper on pension and savings tax relief.

The government’s pledge to create three million new apprenticeships in the next five years, and also ensure they deliver the scientific and technical skills UK businesses needed to increase productivity, is ‘doomed’ to fail without major changes warns government skills adviser Professor Baroness Alison Wolf, in a report published today (2 July) by the Social Market Foundation (SMF).

This is an intensely political Autumn Statement with an economic argument behind it. The future course of deficit reduction is specifically designed in order to underline the Conservatives’ long term...

The government must remove the barriers holding back potential entrepreneurs from starting the high-value, growth boosting companies which are key to unlocking UK productivity, says a new study by the Social Market Foundation (SMF) think tank.

Children who attend private school will earn £193,700 more on average in their early careers than their state educated peers, according to a new independent report by the Social Market...

Advancing the skills of low-paid workers is essential if the UK is to make work pay and remain globally competitive says the Social Market Foundation (SMF) in its new report, Making Progress: Boosting the skills and wage prospects of the low paid, released on Monday 28 April 2014.