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A-level results day 2019: 'Spare a thought for T levels'
Few days highlight the disparity between academic and technical qualifications quite like A-level results day. Every year, the nation obsesses over how many students have achieved an A* and who won in the battle of the sexes. Scrutiny of examiners, teachers and the quality of courses soon follow. Technical education gets no such attention. Results day hysteria highlights our two-tier education system.
Tory candidates: what to do with promised cash for schools?
In the latest instalment of the "I can outspend you" campaigning, Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Matt Hancock have pledged to stump up more cash for schools. Mr Johnson, the frontrunner to lead the Conservative Party, has pledged that every secondary school in England will get at least £5,000 per pupil. Mr Gove, the former education secretary who was first out of the blocks, has committed an extra £1 billion.
Jump-starting HE access | Reform
Last week’s statistics, published by the Higher Education Statistic Agency (HESA), shows the continued slow progress in improving access for disadvantaged students. Across the UK, 11.6 per cent of students were from a low-participation neighbourhood. This represents a 0.2 percentage point increase from the previous year. The statistics are at odds with the Government’s determination to improve social mobility.
Three Steps to Better Measures: Increasing the participation of disadvantaged students
The higher education sector has received considerable attention this week. The Institute of Fiscal Studies’ (IfS) report on the impact of undergraduate degrees on early-career earnings and Reform’s research on access to elite universities for disadvantaged students are two such examples. As the IfS have highlighted, a student’s pre-university characteristics, such as socio-economic status, can have an impact on future earnings.
Sharing civil service smart-working secrets
The civil service is determined to transform the way it works. In his independent review for the Treasury, Sir Michael Barber called for a new approach to how public services are delivered. He argued that to inform spending decisions, there must be more focus on public-sector processes and delivering better outcomes for citizens.
Empowering staff and improving productivity: HMRC’s smart working lessons for Whitehall
The civil service is determined to transform the way it works. In his independent review for the Treasury, Sir Michael Barber called for a new approach to how public services are delivered. He argued that to inform spending decisions, there must be more focus on public-sector processes and delivering better outcomes for citizens.
How we won the US election
Sam Bright speaks to Amelia Showalter – Barack Obama’s analytics chief – about big data, the shock of Hillary Clinton’s defeat, and how to fundraise $1bn Across the western world, progressive politics is being forced into retreat by the raging forces of populism and isolationism. In the midst of this pandemonium, Barack Obama’s campaigns possess an almost mythical aura.
Facing the future of work
Investment in digital skills is vital to ensure we are prepared for the fourth industrial revolution, writes Luke Heselwood Work is always changing, for better and for worse. As handloom weavers gave way to machines, and the typewriter was replaced by the computer, work changed, becoming more productive, innovative and complex. New technology promises further change, and how this is managed during the fourth industrial revolution is crucial to spread the benefits of the digital age.
Incoming universally?
The social policy of successive governments has been based on a simple premise for a quarter of a century or so. If you had a job then you would be economically secure. And with employment at record levels, we now know that a job is not enough. Economic insecurity persists and remains a challenge that every progressive is alert to. In a recent series on economic security, the RSA has concluded that 30 per cent of workers are either chronically or acutely precarious.
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