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Researchers warned that pollution exposure before "high stakes" tests such as A levels risked serious consequences, as one poor day could cost pupils a university place. Sefi Roth, of the London School of Economics, who ... Read more...
30 September 2019
Tertiary education in England is heavily skewed in favour of universities, but offers poor value for money for students and the economy, according to a critical report by the House of Lords. The report by the ... Read more...
11 June 2018
Congratulations to Kilian Huber, Economics PhD and Job market candidate, who is among the Winners of the AQR Top Finance Graduate 2018 Award at the Copenhagen Business School! The award recognizes the mo... Read more...
03 June 2018
The Economist's Soumaya Keynes continues her quest to find out why the study of economics is so dominated by men. Does that affect the kind of economics we get, and why does that matter? In her second prog... Read more...
08 May 2018
An overhaul of university admissions processes – including an end to making offers based on predicted A level grades and a review of personal statements – is being urged in a new Sutton Trust resea... Read more...
20 December 2017
Article by Gill Wyness Rules of the Game analyses the university admissions process in the UK and looks at whether it may be a potential driver of the access gap. This is an area that is surprisingly under-... Read more...
19 December 2017
Gill Wyness, a senior lecturer in the economics of education at the UCL Institute of Education, said there might be logic in this approach given that universities were arguably being incentivised at the moment... Read more...
05 October 2017
Businesses that rely on low-skilled EU labour may face hiring difficulties, writes Jonathan Wadsworth. He argues that post-Brexit work visa quotas on EU nationals will probably favour graduates. Relate... Read more...
18 July 2017
The question was tabled on 22 February by Lord Blencathra (Con): "What is their response to the conclusions of a recent report by LSE and Surrey University that graduate nursery teachers for three- to ... Read more...
22 February 2017
Article by Gill Wyness With UK tuition fees now among the highest in the world, but benefits from having a degree remaining substantial, choosing the right university has never been more important for young... Read more...
09 December 2016
John Van Reenen, professor of economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, agreed. ''The natural explanation of the stable college premium is that the rise in the supply of graduates has been balanced by an increa... Read more...
18 August 2016
If graduates are feeling like they never get any better off, despite having a degree, maybe that's because they really are getting poorer. The Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics has descri... Read more...
27 April 2016
Article by Jonathan Wadsworth Welcome back. The Bank of England has a regular labour market commentary in its quarterly bulletin in which it looks at issues that may influence productivity, wage pressure and hence infla... Read more...
18 April 2016
Gill Wyness, lecturer in the economics of education at the UCL Institute of Education, said that St John's students would welcome the funding but warned that a move towards support coming from universities rather than th... Read more...
14 April 2016
What impact do universities have on a country's economy? Outlining the results of a study of universities across 78 countries, Anna Valero and John Van Reenen find that doubling the number of universities in a region inc... Read more...
25 March 2016
The study, Graduate Returns, Degree Class Premia and Higher Education Expansion in the UK, published by the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, finds that, five years after university, grad... Read more...
14 February 2016
...Unprecedented and profound mutation in the English system", says Stephen Machin, Professor of Economics at the University College of London (UCL). This article was published online by Acteurspublics on September 1, 2... Read more...
01 September 2015
In a recent discussion paper for the London School of Economics Centre for Economic Performance, Stephen Machin, professor of economics at University College London, and Richard Murphy, assistant professor of economics a... Read more...
13 August 2015
Universities spend huge amounts of money on bursaries and scholarships - over £400m in 2014. Yet there is no evidence that the level of financial support offered to students by institutions has any impact on their ... Read more...
10 June 2015
Fees paid by growing numbers of overseas postgraduates studying in the UK have helped to subsidise additional places for domestic learners. That is among the findings of a new paper by Stephen Machin, professor of econom... Read more...
03 October 2014
One degree is no longer enough to secure the best-paid jobs, according to research. Growing numbers of university students are staying on after their bachelors’ degrees to complete postgraduate masters and docto... Read more...
26 October 2011
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