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Higher education should lift students out of poverty – not trap them within it

Lee Elliot Major writes about the need for new financial arrangements for universities to uphold the principle that a university education should be accessible to all. ... Read more...

The Guardian

'He's one of the best': The economist shaping Rachel Reeves's growth plans

John Van Reenen has spent his professional lifetime probing the weak spots of the UK economy. Now he is based in an office next to Reeves's at the Treasury, with his three fellow advisers. One Labour source says they str... Read more...

Almudena Sevilla made CBE in New Year’s honours

Congratulations to Almudena Sevilla, professor of economics and public policy in LSE’s Department of Social Policy, and associate of the Centre for Economic Performance who has been recognised in the New Year's Hon... Read more...

The Times

UK exporters suffer £27bn hit from Brexit

Research from the Centre for Economic Performance, a think tank based at the London School of Economics, said Brexit led to a 6.4 per cent drop in the UK's global exports.  ... Read more...

Financial Times

Brexit hit to UK trade less than predicted, says study

Brexit has hit UK trade less than many forecasters predicted thanks to larger companies adapting to red tape at the border, according to research by the London School of Economics. Researchers estimated UK worldwide good... Read more...

The Guardian

Brexit cost UK £27bn in lost trade in first two years, review finds

The damage from Brexit to trade links with the EU cost the UK £27bn in the first two years, but the overall impact was more limited than forecasters first estimated, according to the most comprehensive review of th... Read more...

Henry Overman appointed to Industrial Strategy Advisory Council

Henry Overman OBE, professor of economic geography at LSE and CEP research director, has been appointed to the Industrial Strategy Advisory Council, it was announced today. Professor Overman is one of 16 members of the ... Read more...

BBC Radio 4

Steel Dragons

The Port Talbot steel works is closing its last remaining blast furnace, delivering a shattering blow to the economy and society of a South Wales town where employment and wages were once so strong it became known as Tre... Read more...

Daniel Chandler awarded the Voltaire Lecture Medal

Congratulations to Daniel Chandler who has been awarded the 2024 Voltaire Lecture Medal for his work on how to create a fair society. Chandler, research director of the LSE’s Programme on Cohesive Capitalism and a... Read more...

Stephen Machin appointed to Labour Market Advisory Board

Stephen Machin, professor of economics at LSE and CEP director, has been appointed to the newly-created Labour Market Advisory Board, it was announced today. Professor Machin is one of eight board members appointed by w... Read more...

TES Magazine

Higher absence 'will remain until Covid generation leaves school'

The 'shock' caused by restrictions introduced during the pandemic in 2020 could take 'seven years to erode', warn Stephen Gibbons, Sandra McNally and Piero Montebruno. ... Read more...

Independent

School absences doubled as 'knock-on' effect of pandemic lockdowns - report

The average rate of school absences not caused by Covid-19 self-isolation doubled after the pandemic, research by Stephen Gibbons, Sandra McNally and Piero Montebruno has found. ... Read more...

The Guardian

Extra for mental health would help UK more than new roads, study says

Spending extra cash on mental health services would boost economic growth and improve the nation’s wellbeing more than building new roads, according to an academic analysis from the London School of Economics. Rich... Read more...

The Telegraph

Force workers to retire later to reduce misery, Reeves urged

Forcing workers to retire later would free up funding for policing and mental health services and "reduce misery" in Britain, a report co-authored by Richard Layard and published by the London School of Economics has sai... Read more...

Times Higher Education

Academic research has ‘bigger role to play in new UK government’

Academics have an opportunity to exert more influence in policymaking with demand for robust evidence on the rise, according to Richard Layard, co-author of a report that seeks a "radical change in the government's spend... Read more...

TES

School mental health teams’ impact outweighs costs, say experts

Spending money on mental health support teams in schools saves more money than it costs within two years, researchers from the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance have said. Lord Layard, who led t... Read more...

Financial Times

Policies must be justified by their wellbeing-to-cost ratio

Richard Layard writes that Labour must apply the wellbeing-to-cost test to every departmental proposal in the spending review. ... Read more...

Financial Times

The UK skills crisis holding back growth

A well-trained workforce is essential to the economy, but a shortage of alternatives to university means Britain's young people are falling behind. Lord Richard Layard talks about a fundamental injustice in Britain's edu... Read more...

BBC

Ucas to reform university personal statements

Ucas is reforming personal statements from next year. Lee Elliot Major, a professor of social mobility at the University of Exeter, said he believed the reform was a "significant step in making the university admissions ... Read more...

The Guardian

Rachel Reeves to announce economic advisory council to boost UK growth

John Van Reenen, an innovation expert and former Downing Street policy adviser under Tony Blair’s New Labour government, will head the body, which is expected to sit within the heart of the Treasury. Sources close ... Read more...

Financial Times

The workplace under Labour: employers braced for biggest shake-up in a generation

From ending zero-hours contracts to boosting benefits, Britain's new government wants to shift power back to staff. Stephen Machin, Alan Manning and Jonathan Wadsworth explain how the power balance stands now. ... Read more...

Henry Overman made OBE in King's birthday honours

Congratulations to Henry Overman, Professor of Economic Geography and Research Director of the Centre for Economic Performance, who has been recognised in the King's Birthday Honours List 2024. Professor Overman has bee... Read more...

Time

To fight inequality, America needs to rethink its economic model

Daniel Chandler writes that to address the vast inequalities in the United States, a fundamental rethink of economic institutions and the values that guide them is needed. ... Read more...

The Times

A new educational dawn should focus on pupils' wellbeing

Lee Elliot Major outlines how the learning loss suffered by pupils during Covid-19 and the resulting decline in social mobility could be the most enduring legacy of the pandemic, explaining why policies that help level t... Read more...

The Guardian

Pupils in England 'facing worst exam results in decades' after Covid closures

Lee Elliot Major's research predicts a steady decline in GCSE results of key subjects until 2030, attributing it to the failure to address the academic and social legacies of school closures during the pandemic. ... Read more...