By Richard V. Reeves, Edward Rodrigue and Elizabeth Kneebone. Poverty is about a lack of money, but it’s not only about that. As a lived experience, poverty is also characterized by ill health, insecurity, discomfort, isolation, and more. To put it another way: Poverty is multidimensional, and its dimensions often cluster together to intensify the negative effects of being poor. More...
By Jenny Perlman Robinson and Rebecca Winthrop, with Eileen McGivney. Around the world, countries are grappling with how to scale quality education for their children and youth. Quality education is at the center of a nation’s progress, and it is also enshrined in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which 193 countries have recently committed to support. While the spread of schooling over the past 150 years is one of the most widely successful “going to scale” stories, this expansion too often has been met with little mastery of core academic content and higher-order thinking skills. More...
By . To increase educational attainment levels, the process of preparing and applying for college needs to improve. Students need to know when to apply for financial aid, how to choose a college that matches their academic and social preferences, and develop awareness about what happens after college in terms of repaying debt and finding a job. More...
By Dick Startz. Roughly 100,000 students a year earn a bachelor’s degree in education, a number that has been steady for decades. How do ed students spend their careers? Do they teach or do they follow an alternative career. More...
By . “Higher education, more than ever, is the ticket to the middle class.” So said President Obama last year. More...
BBC staff will be asked to disclose details of their family income and upbringing, as part of new plans to ensure that the corporation is not dominated by the middle classes. More...
By . Some of Britain’s most prestigious universities do not offer a high enough “quality and intensity of teaching” to demand students pay £9,000 a year, a leaked government document has revealed. More...
By . A few years ago, universities started to advertise their courses using a striking government statistic: that a degree added about £250,000 to one’s lifetime earnings. It was the start of a new era, where teenagers would have to borrow up to £9,000 a year for their tuition and wanted to know if the investment would be worth it. More...
By . If we want a real meritocracy, we know we have a long way to go. Britain has some of the lowest social mobility in the developed world. Over half of our top doctors, FTSE-100 chief execs, senior journalists and 70 per cent of High Court judges went to private schools. More...
By . A college at the University of Cambridge is to fund the living costs of students from low-income backgrounds - replacing the maintenance grant recently scrapped by the Government. More...
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