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Economics Observatory:
How could the UK's education system be reformed to equalise opportunities?

Nine out of ten respondents to a recent UK poll by More in Common for the Sutton Trust agreed that it is important for young people to have equal opportunities, regardless of their background. While recent YouGov pollin...Read more...

Jake Anders, Lindsey Macmillan and Gill Wyness

5 June 2024

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Oxford Review of Education :
Inequalities in late adolescents' educational experiences and wellbeing during the Covid-19 pandemic

While the health risks of Covid-19 for young people are low, they have borne a heavy cost of the pandemic through intense disruption to their education and social lives. These effects have not been experienced equally ac...Read more...

Jake Anders, Lindsey Macmillan, Patrick Sturgis and Gill Wyness

13 October 2022

Journal article
Education Economics :
Grade expectations: how well can past performance predict future grades?

Students in the UK apply to university with teacher-predicted examination grades, rather than actual results. These predictions have been shown to be inaccurate, and to favour certain groups, leading to concerns about te...Read more...

Jake Anders, Catherine Dilnot, Lindsey Macmillan and Gill Wyness

19 September 2022

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LSE Politics and Policy:
Pupils with graduate parents received an unfair advantage in their A-level results last year

Following a disastrous attempt to assign pupil grades using a controversial algorithm, last year's GCSE and A-level grades were eventually determined using Centre Assessed Grades. New survey evidence finds that some pupi...Read more...

Jake Anders, Lindsey Macmillan, Patrick Sturgis and Gill Wyness

10 June 2021

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LSE Covid-19:
Almost two-thirds of Black British young people would be reluctant to get a Covid vaccine

We may need to vaccinate under-18s to get the pandemic under control. Patrick Sturgis (LSE), Lindsey Macmillan, Jake Anders and Gill Wyness (UCL Institute of Education) on the findings of a UCL CEPEO / LSE COVID-19 surve...Read more...

Jake Anders, Lindsey Macmillan, Patrick Sturgis and Gill Wyness

17 March 2021