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Jonathan Haskell and Matthew J Slaughter write for Foreign Affairs about Trump's tariffs and the prices of economic uncertainty. ... Read more...
10 June 2025
We should also worry about our rather odd exam system. To have high stakes national exams at the age of 16 — GCSEs — is relatively unusual by international standards. It is easy to understand their... Read more...
04 June 2018
Examination is therefore a democratic tool of social climbing? Examination is the tool that makes it possible to establish the symbolic value of the graduate from the certification of his apprenticeships. This... Read more...
18 May 2018
Last year, the government appointed Sir David Metcalf to a newly created post: director of labour market enforcement. He published his first strategy last week, devoting a page to Leicester’s garment sec... Read more...
17 May 2018
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
Pupils who narrowly fail to achieve a grade C in their GCSE English exam pay a high price, according to new research. A study from the Centre for Vocational Education Research explored what happened to young p... Read more...
18 April 2018
If teachers and pupils weren’t under enough pressure in the run-up to GCSEs, new research has quantified the potentially life-changing impact missing a grade can have on a young person. Accordi... Read more...
13 April 2018
Pupils who narrowly fail their English GCSE exams pay a high price, according to a new study by the Centre for Vocational Education Research at the London School of Economics. Researchers at the centre,&n... Read more...
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...
9 o'clock if you have a health read then you can call us now and takes more calls as well on this issue of people fleeing the NHS but before that Sir rumours are continuing to circulate of the cra... Read more...
04 July 2017
There is considerable geographical variation in the opportunities available to disadvantaged children in the United States, according to research by Raj Chetty, who delivered the 2016 Lionel Robbins Memorial L... Read more...
06 January 2017
Shale gas offers the prospect of a low-cost energy future, but invokes fears of environmental catastrophe, write Stephen Gibbons, Stephan Heblich, Esther Lho and Christopher Timmins ... Read more...
16 December 2016
Data to calculate Gross National Happiness (GNH) includes asking respondents to measure their perceived quality of life on a scale of 0 to 10, with 0 representing the worst and 10 the best possible outcome. The latest r... Read more...
06 August 2016
Various analysis have shown that Brexit will adversely affect Britain's economy. According to the Centre for Economic Performance, LSE, Britain's economy will decrease by 1.3 per cent to 2.6 per cent without considering ... Read more...
12 July 2016
Economists and political analysts have debated over the long-term effects of the vote on the future of the British economy. Prior to the referendum many warned that Brexit could have dire consequences for Britain, includ... Read more...
30 June 2016
UK's EU exit will make transatlantic trade talks even tougher. ''There's every reason to believe that the right-wing lurch of Brexit could turn the U.K. into a paradise for free market capitalism: a TTIP on steroids,'' ... Read more...
28 June 2016
As every summer, exams are in the news. We look at whether the pressure to do well in exams is having an effect on children's mental health. We speak to experts from Education, Psychology and Economics who are now work... Read more...
24 May 2016
Investors who strongly favour green energy make less thorough location searches, writes Yatang Lin Wind power is becoming an increasingly important part of the US energy mix, taking up more than four per cent of the tot... Read more...
19 April 2016
Lower trade with the EU would knock British economic output down by between 1.1 and 3.1 percentage points, according to a study by the London School of Economics. Foreign investment would surely drop and new roadblocks t... Read more...
31 March 2015