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Congratulations to Saul Estrin, emeritus professor of managerial economics and strategy at LSE and associate in CEP’s growth programme, who has been elected as a new Fellow of the British Academy. He is amon... Read more...
27 July 2023
Cointelegraph reached out to MIT Professor of Economics John van Reenen OBE to give his take on the move by the British Treasury and the touted cryptocurrency taskforce. The renowned economist painted a slight... Read more...
28 March 2018
British businesses want unrestricted access to European workers to continue after Brexit, describing them as better qualified and more motivated than their UK counterparts. The findings came in an interim repo... Read more...
27 March 2018
Article by Henry Overman With all British cities likely to see a fall in economic output as a result of Brexit, thoughts are turning to the policies needed to help local economies adjust to the challenges a... Read more...
16 January 2018
Research shows that policy uncertainty can drive down business investment by six to 10.5 per cent. To see how the election created uncertainty in B.C., the Fraser Institute created a proxy measure using newspa... Read more...
31 August 2017
The rise of academies promised more power for schools - but, with government still clinging to the reins, heads haven't been able to raise standards as expected. However, this system may yet deliver - if m... Read more...
28 July 2017
Article by Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin Increasing the quality and quantity of an individual’s education is seen by many as a panacea to many social ills: stagnating wages, increases in inequality,... Read more...
14 December 2016
This finding is mirrored at least in part by a study of sponsored academies established under the previous Labour government, conducted by the London School of Economics, which argues that the impact of conversion should... Read more...
22 July 2016
Yesterday the Education Policy Institute, in partnership with the Sutton Trust, hosted the 'Academies: 15 years on summit'. This was an opportunity for researchers, policy makers and system leaders to come together and c... Read more...
13 July 2016
After years of debate over the effectiveness of academy status, the Education Policy Institute has now released data which it says shows the causal impact of academy status on school performance. Editor Laura McInerney e... Read more...
12 July 2016
New research has found ''no evidence'' that academy status leads to better grades for pupils at schools rated good or satisfactory. The study, by the London School of Economics and the Education Policy Institute (EPI)... Read more...
The frustrating thing is that politicians seem quite happy to ignore evidence - even when they have helped to support the researchers who produced it. For example, when the chancellor George Osborne announced in his bud... Read more...
16 April 2016
14 April 2016
All schools will become academies, announced George Osborne in his 2016 Budget speech. But the impact of such mass rollout on students' performance is uncertain, explain Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin. This article was... Read more...
16 March 2016
According to studies conducted by John Van Reenen, director at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and Political Science, differences in productivity between other countries and the US c... Read more...
11 March 2016
More evidence of the success of the academy schools programme was published yesterday. A new paper by Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin at the Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE finds that ''the first round of acad... Read more...
14 August 2015
Article by Sandra McNally With education policy set to play an important part in the May general election campaign, debates around the future direction of the school system will take place against the backdrop of fast-p... Read more...
24 March 2015
Select Committee publications: education 3. The growth in the number of academies and free schools and the significance of their impact on the educational landscape in England led us to decide that it would be timely to... Read more...
28 January 2015
The academies programme has transformed England's educational landscape. ... A separate study by Professor Machin and Andrew Eyles at the London School of Economics identified ''beneficial effects'' in schools becoming a... Read more...
11 October 2014
Meanwhile, justification for rapid academisation is scant. A 2009 report by LSE academics Stephen Machin and Joan Wilson signals there was little proof that New Labour's academies raised the attainment of poorer students... Read more...
14 May 2014
Speech given by Michael Gove on December 1, 2011 in Birmingham A few months ago, academics at the London School of Economics published a landmark assessment of the academies programme. They found three things. First, ... Read more...
02 December 2011
The move to convert schools to academy status is underpinned by research, most recently a paper by Stephen Machin and James Vernoit of the London School of Economics, which found Labour's academies not only improved thei... Read more...
23 May 2011