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EPI chief executive Natalie Perera to leave think tank for AQA role

Former government adviser to take up chief external affairs and communications officer role for England’s largest exam board

EPI calls for review of phonics screening check

Researchers argue there’s ‘no evidence’ the checks led to improved outcomes

Schools should be judged on pupil inclusion – not just exams, think tank says

Proposed metrics would measure admissions, attendance and exclusions

DfE army of cost-cutters extended after visiting 1,000 schools

The government’s school resource management adviser (SRMA) programme will run until 2024.

EPI: Cost of universal CPD entitlement would equal less than 1% of school spending

Providing teachers with a formal entitlement to 35 hours of high-quality continuing professional development (CPD) would cost the government the equivalent of less than 1 per cent of its total schools budget, a think tank has said. A new report from the Education Policy Institute (EPI) found it would cost the government an extra £210 […]

The 6 key points from EPI’s ‘Secondary School Choice in England’ report

The Education Policy Institute (EPI) has published new analysis looking at how parents choose which secondary schools to send their children to in England. Each child can list up to six secondary schools they want to apply to, which parents rank in order of preference. These are submitted to the local authority who then allocate […]

David Laws and Natalie Perera, Executive chairman and Executive director, Education Policy Institute

I’m at the new Education Policy Institute offices at 9am on a sweltering Monday to meet its executive chairman, the former Liberal Democrat schools minister David Laws, and Natalie Perera, an ex-civil servant turned executive director. I’m envisioning some kind of breakfast banter over croissants, a la Richard and Judy, or maybe more Fern and […]

Disadvantaged pupils’ maths attainment sees England fall behind

England needs to double the number of disadvantaged pupils who achieve the top GCSE grades in maths to catch up with the best-performing countries around the world, according to new Education Policy Institute (EPI) research. Just one in 10 disadvantaged pupils in England achieve a grade 7, 8 or 9 in GCSE maths, while nearly twice […]

Access to the best secondary schools ‘hasn’t improved since 2010’

Access to high-performing secondary schools has not improved since 2010, and has become more geographically unequal, according to a report by the Education Policy Institute. The think-tank compared the availability of places in “high-performing secondary schools” – those with good value-added scores over a four-year period. It found that around a fifth of local authority […]