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Schools Week
GCSE results: A national shame that requires radical change

New research shows the unfolding tragedy of educational disadvantage, Lee Elliot Major writes.  ... Read more...

01 September 2022

IZA Newsroom
The costly consequences of just failing a high-stakes exam

A new study by IZA fellows Stephen Machin and Sandra McNally with Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela (all researchers at the London School of Economics) analyzes the benefits (or costs) for students who just pass (or fai... Read more...

07 May 2018

Centre for Vocational Education Research (CVER) blog
Missing the mark at GCSE English: the costly consequences of just failing to get a grade C

Article by Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally and Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela. New research by the Centre for Vocational Education Research (CVER) [CVER Discussion Paper 014] analyses the benefits (or costs) for ... Read more...

13 April 2018

Times Educational Supplement - TES
'Revolving door' warning

Thousands of 16-year-olds are stuck in an educational ''revolving door'', returning year after year to study low-level qualifications, a major new study has found. The Centre for Vocational Education Research (CVER) at ... Read more...

19 August 2016

The Conversation
If A-Levels aren't for you, choices at age 16 could now get a whole lot simpler

Article by Sandra McNally, Director of the Centre for Vocational Education Research (CVER), LSE and Head of Education and Skills Programme, CEP The incoming British prime minister Theresa May has outlined a vision of a ... Read more...

13 July 2016

The Conversation
The divide is growing between what employers and ministers want students to study

Article by Sandra McNally From this September, all pupils at secondary school will have to study English, a language, maths, science and history or geography at GCSE. This is the English Baccalaureate, or Ebacc, which e... Read more...

23 June 2015