The Research Leader

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
The Research Leader

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
The Research Leader

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