Tax options for 1993: the Green Budget

Understand this issue

What does the Conservative's higher education announcement this week mean for apprenticeships and 'low-value' university courses?

explainer

IFS Associate Director Christine Farquharson explains.

1 June 2024

Why are universities in financial trouble?

podcast

Why are universities struggling, what happens if they go bust and what can government do to help? What other challenges do the HE and FE sectors face?

21 August 2024

What has been happening with university finances?

explainer

IFS Associate Director Christine Farquharson explains.

27 June 2024

Policy analysis

Repayments by lifetime earnings decile under the system applying for the 2022 university entry cohort

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The lowest-earning 10% of graduates repay around 1.1% of their lifetime earnings, while the highest-earning 10% of graduates repay around 1.2%.

10 January 2025

Comparing the systems applying for the 2022 and 2024 university entry cohorts

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Under the new system, student loans will become cheaper for high-earning graduates and more expensive for those with lower earnings.

10 January 2025

Education in the 2025 Spending Review: impossible choices?

event 8 January 2025 at 10:30

The launch of 2024/25 IFS Annual Report on Education Spending in England, funded by the Nuffield Foundation

Academic research

Household responses to trade shocks

working paper

We study the impact of Chinese import competition in the 2000s on workers and their households in England and Wales.

12 November 2024

Schooled by trade? Retraining and import competition

working paper

We study the interaction of retraining and international trade in Germany, a highly open economy with extensive state-subsidized retraining programs.

28 October 2024

The impact of labour demand shocks when occupational labour supplies are heterogeneous

working paper

We study the heterogeneous impact of subsequent demand shifts on wages and employment in Germany.

28 June 2024