Tag: education
Briefing 65: Privately educated children earn more than state-educated children with the same grades
30 October 2015 • Where you go to school influences how much you earn, regardless of what grade you get!
Briefing 64: There are more disadvantaged children in Britain than in many other advanced economies
16 October 2015 • A higher proportion of UK children grow up in households with incomes well below the national median, while more young people in the UK are not in education, employment or training
Briefing 60: Top Universities are dominated by students who went to private school
11 June 2015 • Barely half of entrants to Oxford University are state educated, compared to 93% of the wider population
Briefing 51: Poorer Children are already disadvantaged before they even start school
16 January 2015 • Differences in income hinder children's progress from a very young age
Briefing 41: Increasing family incomes improves children’s achievement in school
31 July 2014 • Raising household incomes by £1,000 would lead to better outcomes for poorer children than spending an extra £1,000 per child on schools
Briefing 40: Poorer children do worse in school because they are poorer
25 July 2014 • Studies show that increasing household incomes would reduce the school achievement gap between rich and poor children, regardless of school or parenting quality
Briefing 25: Top jobs are dominated by people who went to private school
4 April 2014 • Just 7% of people were educated privately, but they form a majority of certain top professions
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Recent briefings
- Briefing 65: Privately educated children earn more than state-educated children with the same grades
- Briefing 64: There are more disadvantaged children in Britain than in many other advanced economies
- Briefing 63: Reducing inequality doesn’t harm the economy
- Briefing 62: Rising inequality has reduced the UK’s economic growth
- Briefing 61: Regional inequality in the UK is the worst in Western Europe
