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Are 16-year-olds prepared for politics? Or are they over-protected from controversy and debate?
Alex Standish. Increasingly, children and young people are stepping into political arenas that have been considered the realm of adults. In an insecure world, they are campaigning for their own lives and futures. In the UK this year, students joined…
Should we eat more fish or more ice-cream to boost PISA scores?
Two cautionary tales ahead of December’s publication of new PISA results
Paying for a private sixth form education: how much difference does it make?
Francis Green and Morag Henderson. Britain’s private schools have again entered the public eye, with increasing concern over social mobility and social justice. There have been pressures for reform from several quarters. The most extreme was a September call for…
Is PISA ‘fundamentally flawed’ because of the scaling methodology used?
Concerns about part of the methodology used in calculating PISA results may have been overblown
How much does private schooling raise your pay, and does it make you give more to the community?
Francis Green. Private schools find themselves in the news lately, more than they usually are. Boris Johnson became the fifth Old Etonian prime minister since the war, and immediately appointed a cabinet in which nearly two-thirds were privately educated, re-affirming…
How do GCSE grades relate to PISA scores?
Exploring the link between international test scores and KS4 results
How women managers close the gender wage gap
Alex Bryson, John Forth and Nikos Theodoropoulos In the last few decades there has been what has been called ‘a grand gender convergence‘. Women now outperform men in educational attainment and are closing the gap in labour market experience. These…
Are all types of reading equal, or are some more equal than others?
Choice of reading matter does make a difference, data from PISA suggests
When teachers use good verbal feedback strategies, it saves them time and boosts pupils’ engagement
Mark Quinn. For some time now, teachers have been wondering whether there are better, less labour-intensive, ways of giving feedback to their students. Surely marking stacks of books every night cannot be the only way? We now have some evidence…
How do headteachers in England use test data, and does this differ from other countries?
Schools in England seem to make extensive use of education data – much more so than in other countries
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