Dr Jack Britton

Associate Director

Jack joined the IFS in 2013 and works in the Education and Skills sector. His main interests lie in human capital accumulation and discrete choice dynamic modelling. Jack's recent work has included analysis of the effect of replacing the EMA with the 16-19 Bursary in England on participation and attainment, measuring human capital of university graduates in England, and modelling the interaction between health and human capital.

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Higher Education Funding: more change to come?

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This Election Briefing Note provides a summary of the current higher education funding system in England and investigates the two big reform packages that are currently on the table going into the 2019 General Election.

19 November 2019

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Is charging £9,250 for tuition fees fair?

Event 5 November 2019 at 18:30 <p>Store Street, London, WC1E 7BT</p>
How much will you really pay for university? Does that depend on where and what you study? Are there any alternative ways to fund higher education? And how would these affect what the education system should be trying to achieve? This IFS Public Talk will be given by Jack Britton, Senior Research Economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and will give an economist's perspective on the ongoing tuition fee debate.
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Education spending in England: launch of 2019 annual report

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IFS researchers presented the key findings from their second annual report on education spending in England, supported by the Nuffield Foundation, providing consistent measures of day-to-day spending per pupil in England across the four main stages of education stretching back to the early 1990s.

19 September 2019

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2019 annual report on education spending in England

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Education spending is the second-largest element of public service spending in the UK behind health, representing about £91 billion in 2018–19 in today’s prices or about 4.2% of national income.

19 September 2019

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Costing the Augar reforms to higher education

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The Augar Review – released yesterday – was wide reaching in its scope. Most importantly, the review suggests an important raft of changes to the further education sector and increases the power and scope of the post-18 education regulator, the Office for Students (as we discussed yesterday ). While these are the most significant features, there were also several changes to the student loan system that we untangle here. We confirm that the overall package of changes significantly reduces average debt while being broadly cost-neutral. It achieves that by extracting a large amount of money in future student loan repayments from middle-earning graduates.

31 May 2019

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IFS Public Talk: Is it fair to charge £9,250 for university tuition fees?

Event 13 March 2019 at 16:00 <p>The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PY</p>
This IFS Public Talk, jointly organised with the University of Manchester, will be given by Jack Britton, Senior Research Economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and will give an economist's perspective on the ongoing tuition fee debate.