Education and skills

Average and marginal returns to upper secondary schooling in Indonesia

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.

The present study examined pathways to financial independence from social welfare among 738 teenage mothers, participants of the 1970 British Cohort Study.

The aim of this report is to identify the effect of month of birth on a range of key skills and behaviours amongst young people growing up in England today.

This report explores what types of firm engage with the apprenticeship programme and if there are characteristics that make them more or less likely to offer apprenticeships.

This appendix accompanies IFS Briefing Note 122.

This paper examines the impact of in utero exposure to the Asian influenza pandemic of 1957 upon childhood development.

The analyses summarised here explore the educational outcomes of disengaged young people from a nationally representative cohort who reported taking vocational courses in Year 10 compared to similarly disengaged young people who did not.

This study investigated the hypothesis that offering vocational options in Year 10 can help improve levels of educational engagement and subsequent outcomes among young people disengaged from education.

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.

This report analyses the impact that ERA has had on a variety of outcomes experienced by working members of the New Deal for Lone Parents and Working Tax Credit target groups, as well as on the tax year earnings of working members of the New Deal 25 plus target group.

In this paper, we estimate the separate impacts of tuition fees and maintenance grants on the decision to enter university in the UK.

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.