Luke Sibieta

Every funding system creates incentives for some individuals to behave in particular ways, and systems for financing Special Educational Needs (SEN) are no different. In this short note, we examine the incentives that systems for financing special educational needs can create for different individuals.

This study combined a literature review with secondary analysis to draw together good quality evidence on the subject of informal childcare, and to highlight the gaps in that evidence.

Report commissioned as part of the Centre for Understanding Behaviour Change (CUBEC) at the University of Bristol

In this Briefing Note, we describe the options for a national funding formula for schools and examine how different options would affect the finances of different schools or areas of the country.

This report addresses some of the key issues relating to young people's subject and course choices.

In this Briefing Note, we produce new estimates of the likely cuts to overall public spending on education in the UK up to 2014-15.

In this article, we compare the nature of private schooling in both Australia and the United Kingdom. The experience of the two countries has been very different over the recent past.

In this article we seek to address the question as to why parents choose pivate education for their children.

The UK recently experienced its deepest recession since the Second World War, during which GDP fell by over 6 per cent between the first quarter of 2008 and the third quarter of 2009. We would naturally expect these falls in national income to have consequences for UK households' living standards. In this chapter, we examine how earnings, employment and household incomes evolved immediately before, during and after the Great Recession in the UK.