Author: Raynette Bierman, Susan Mackay, Irene Soriano Redondo: Ipsos UK Details: The DfE commissioned Ipsos UK, in partnership with the Education Policy Institute (EPI), to undertake an independent evaluation of the 16-19 Tuition Fund for the 2021/22 academic year....
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2024 National Student Survey (NSS)
Author: Sami Benyahia Details: The 2024 National Student Survey (NSS) conducted by Ipsos achieved the highest response rate in 20 years. The NSS, one of the largest surveys of its kind globally, collects student opinions on a range of topics, including teaching...
Education Monitor 2024
Author: Ipsos Details: In the second edition of our annual Education Monitor, we explore global attitudes (across 30 countries) towards education and schools, with a special focus on the role of technology, AI and smartphones.
What The Future: Education
Author: Ipsos Details: America’s education system faces multiple changes that will impact how it prepares the workforce of tomorrow. The skills that workers need are rapidly evolving. The technology to teach those skills is advancing exponentially. Ipsos asks how do...
16 to 19 additional hours evaluation
Author: Seemanti Ghosh, Daniel Muir, Becci Newton Details: In September 2022, the Department for Education launched funding to enable all 16 to 19 year-old learners (or up to 25 for learners with an education, health and care (EHC) plan) to receive on average an...
Decision Making of Adult Learners below Level 2
Author: Learning and Work Institute Details: Learning and Work Institute (L&W) was commissioned by the Department for Education (DfE) to undertake research to better understand how adults with qualifications below Level 2 make decisions about whether or not to...
Can behaviourally informed communications increase applications, and appointments, to System Leadership roles?
Author: Chadeesingh, Lal, Daniel Carr, and Raj Chande Details: In September 2016, the Department for Education (DfE) commissioned the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) to investigate how behavioural insights could help to facilitate a school-led improvement system. This...
Youth opportunity index (2019)
Author: Learning and Work Institute Details: This brings together data on achievement at age 16 (Key Stage 4), attainment of Level 3 by age 19, access to higher education, take up of apprenticeships, employment rates, a measure of the quality of work (net...
Adult participation in learning survey
Author: Learning and Work Institute Details: Our Adult Participation in Learning survey is the longest running and most frequently occurring study of adult learning in the UK. It adopts a broad definition of learning, including formal, non-formal and informal...
Cost barriers to learning at Level 3
Author: Emily Jones, Yasmin White, Sophie Hall, Mags Bexon Details: This research, carried out by Learning and Work Institute on behalf of the Department for Education, provides evidence on: The financial barriers that learners face How learning impacts on...
Community learning mental health research project
Details: Ipsos | Centre for Mental Health | Liz Lawson An Ipsos research project commissioned by DfE to understand how adult and community learning courses can help people manage and recover from mild to moderate mental health problems, such as anxiety...
Mapping investment in adult skills Which individuals, in what learning and with what returns?
Details: Gloster R, Marvell R, Buzzeo J, Hadjivassiliou K, Williams J, Huxley C | Research Paper | Department for Business, Innovation and Skills | May 2016 This research was commissioned by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) in order to acquire...
From early years to adult learning: IES research to support education and life chances
Details: Dawson A, Newton B, Pollard E | | Institute for Employment Studies | Jun 2021 This graphic presents an overview of IES research projects spanning pre-16 education to post-16 choices, including apprenticeships, technical education, and higher education for...
The Good Youth Employment Benchmark: Creating an evidence base of good youth employment practice
Details: Joy Williams, Cristiana Orlando | | Institute for Employment Studies | Mar 2024 This is an updated version of the 2022 evaluation by IES (commissioned by Youth Employment UK) which asked the following questions about youth employment practice: What...
Community learning mental health research project
Details: A report from an Ipsos UK project for the Department for Education to understand how adult and community learning courses can help people manage and recover from mild to moderate mental health problems, such as anxiety and depression. The Community Learning...
Valuing adult learning: comparing wellbeing valuation and contingent valuation
Details: Good adult learning benefits society and it benefits those who receive it. But just how good is it? Economists think about individual benefits in terms of utility. Since this is a rather abstract concept, we like to convert changes in utility to changes in...