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    Education spending: resourced for levelling up?

    Event 30 November 2021 at 13:30 <p>Please see above for details on how to watch this event online.</p>
    The next few years are likely to be particularly challenging for schools, colleges, universities and nurseries. At this event, we will examine how education spending can be best set to support levelling up and narrow inequalities.
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    Education spending: resourced for levelling up?

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    The next few years are likely to be particularly challenging for schools, colleges, universities and nurseries. This event examined how education spending can be best set to support levelling up and narrow inequalities.

    30 November 2021

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    Childcare during the pandemic

    Podcast
    The closures of childcare providers to most families during the COVID-19 crisis have underlined the importance of access to childcare.

    9 September 2020

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    Why don’t more girls study maths and physics?

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    Despite receiving 55% of A levels overall in 2018, girls received just 43% of A levels awarded in STEM subjects. Rachel Cassidy, Sarah Cattan and Claire Crawford explore what drives girls’ A level choices, including why they may or may not opt for maths or physics.

    22 August 2018

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    How can we increase girls’ uptake of maths and physics A-level?

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    There is a large gender gap in the likelihood of taking maths and physics at A-level, even among high-achieving pupils. Among pupils who achieved grade A or A* (equivalent to grades 7-9) in GCSE maths in 2010, 36.5% of girls compared to 51.1% of boys took maths A-level. Among those who achieved grade A or A* in GCSE physics, just 13.2% of girls compared to 39.3% of boys took physics A-level. By contrast, there is almost no gender gap in the likelihood of taking chemistry A-level amongst those who score highly in the subject at GCSE, and girls are actually more likely to take biology A-level than boys.

    22 August 2018

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    Intergenerational income persistence within families

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    There is substantial evidence of a significant relationship between parents’ income and sons’ earnings in the UK, and that this relationship has strengthened over time. We extend this by exploring a broader measure of net family income as an outcome.

    11 August 2017

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    Selective education and university subject choice

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    Fifty years ago, entry to state secondary schools in England was decided on the basis of an exam taken at age 11. Those with the highest scores – around 25% of the population – could go to grammar schools (selective state funded schools), while the rest would go to secondary moderns. Children educated at these different types of school followed different curricula and took different qualifications at age 16, and staying in education beyond this point was usually only open to those who had attended grammar schools.

    16 December 2016

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    Family background and university success

    Event 5 December 2016 at 13:30 28 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JS
    The Nuffield Foundation is hosting a conference in partnership with IFS to discuss the latest evidence relating to higher education and social mobility.