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    Reforming training and skills policy

    Event 12 October 2023 at 10:00 via Slido and Youtube
    In this online event we presented the findings of a new report focused on England's approach to investment in training and skills.
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    Reforming training and skills policy

    Presentation
    In this online event we presented the findings of a new report focused on England's approach to investment in training and skills.

    12 October 2023

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    Resource challenges facing further and higher education

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    Further and higher education providers face severe resource challenges as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. At this event, IFS researchers and panellists Philip Augar and Mary Curnock Cook analysed these challenges.

    3 November 2020

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    Quality, not quantity, is what matters

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    From May this year, all large employers have had to pay the apprenticeship levy, which equates to 0.5% of payroll bills in excess of £3m. This is estimated to raise £2.8bn a year by 2019-20. In recompense, expenditure on the costs of off-the-job training for apprentices is now effectively free (up to certain limits set by government), which applies to levy- and non-levy-paying employers in a broadly similar way. These changes have led to an increase in the expected government subsidy for apprenticeships in England from £1.8bn in 2016-17 to £2.5bn in 2019-20.

    14 December 2017

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    Non-cognitive skill formation in poor neighbourhoods of urban India

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    We examine the impact of a long-term programme designed to raise non-cognitive skills of children and adolescents in slums in Bombay. We use a cross-cutting design with two comparison groups of peers for young adults who have attended the programme until leaving high school to analyse whether, compared to those from a similar environment and background, enrolment in the programme demonstrably raises such skills. We find evidence of substantial impacts on both self-esteem and self-efficacy (of about one standard deviation), as well as evidence of a smaller impact on life evaluation and aspirations.

    23 December 2015