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What’s really behind teacher shortages here and abroad?

A new report attempts to find the simplest explanation for why countries with teacher shortages have them while others...

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Professor Stephen Gorard
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What does employee engagement tell us about retention?

Our findings show that when teachers become more emotionally engaged with their colleagues over the course of an academic...

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John Jerrim
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Assumed knowledge: A hidden barrier to social mobility

Knowledge of 'how the system works' stacks opportunity in favour of the most well-off. New analysis reveals how the...

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Nick Brook
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Understanding the childhood origins of social mobility

How disadvantage translates to poorer outcomes is more complex than sometimes portrayed, reveals our new report

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Rob Wilson
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What new data tells us about hours spent at school

Our new report delves for the first time on the length of the school week in schools across the...

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Oana Gavriloiu and Louis Hodge
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What’s next for ‘evidence-informed’ education?

‘Evidence-informed’ has become an easy and often empty marketing tag for CPD providers. Here’s how we guard against its...

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Harry Madgwick
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NTP: What we’ve learned – and haven’t – about tutoring’s impact

The way the National Tutoring Programme was evaluated left little scope to determine its impact, but that shouldn’t put...

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Dr Ben Styles
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Home truths (and myths) about life skills in our curriculum

New international evidence shows England is an outlier in its approach to skills to the detriment of equity and...

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Mark Boylan
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How can Labour ensure oracy delivers on its promise? 

New Sutton Trust research reveals variation in schools’ approaches and a lack of evidence on how best to maximise...

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Rebecca Montacute