Education and skills

Details of the proposed changes to higher education (HE) have been finalised ahead of tomorrow's vote in the House of Commons on the raising of the cap on tuition fees to £9,000. We offer an analysis in this Briefing Note.

Welcome to the first edition of the CAYT digest.

In July 2010, the Department for Education launched a consultation on school funding arrangements in 2011-12, and their plans for a pupil premium from September 2011 onwards. This briefing note contains the response of IFS researchers to this consultation.

This paper compares patterns of private school attendance in the UK and Australia.

This paper looks at the impact of private school fees and school quality on the demand for private secondary schooling in the UK.

This paper tests whether family size has a causal effect on girls' education in Mexico.

We find a very strong correlation between cognitive ability across generations, as well as a strong relationship between family socio-economic status and cognitive ability.

The online appendix for IFS working paper W10/15, 'The role of attitudes and behaviours in explaining socio-economic differences in attainment at age 16'.

Online appendix for IFS working paper W10/16, 'Explaining the socio-economic gradient in child outcomes: the intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills'.

Using a simple decomposition analysis, we show that around two thirds of the socio-economic gap in attainment at age 16 can be accounted for by long-run family background characteristics and prior ability.

In this paper we use an economic model to analyse data from a major social experiment, namely PROGRESA in Mexico, and to evaluate its impact on school participation.