Projects relating to education and training
Education is increasingly viewed as a lifelong process. The studies listed below range from evaluations of school-based interventions intended to increase pupil attainment to training programmes designed to enable adults to compete more effectively in the labour market:
Action Tutoring
Education and training, Evaluation, Matching
Estimating the impact of Action Tutoring's tuition programme on GCSE attainment.
Education and its effects on income and mortality of older men
Education and training, Employment and welfare, Modelling and descriptives
Exploring the effects of education on the income, health and survival of older men
Mathematical Reasoning randomised control trial
Education and training, Evaluation, Randomised control
Evaluating the impact on attainment of an intervention to enhance understanding of the mathematics fundamentals
Improving Working Memory randomised control trial
Education and training, Evaluation, Randomised control
Evaluating the effect of a working memory intervention on attainment among low-achieving primary school children
Labour market surveys for Saudi Arabia
Education and training, Employment and welfare
Designing a labour market survey for Saudi Arabia
Changes in young people’s early transitions
Education and training, Employment and welfare, Modelling and descriptives
Describing the changing nature of young people's experiences post-school leaving age over the past 30 years.
Changing mindsets
Education and training, Evaluation, Randomised control
Evaluating the effect of a “mindset” intervention on school pupils' attainment
Intergenerational Dynamics in Learning Engagement, Life Chances and Well-Being of Young People
Education and training, Health and Well-being, Modelling and descriptives
An examining of intergenerational transmission of education and, separately, a consideration of variations in subjective well-being by ethnicity and migration ancestry.
Evaluation of Traineeships
Education and training, Employment and welfare, Evaluation, Instrumental variables, Matching
Evaluating the impact of Traineeships on young people's learning and employment outcomes
Programme of research into adult English and Maths
Education and training, Evaluation, Modelling and descriptives, Randomised control
Evaluating the relative effectiveness of blended learning and face-to-face tuition on skills; examination of skills gain and loss following training
Parental engagement intervention randomised control trial
Education and training, Randomised control
Evaluating the effect of a parental engagement intervention on child attainment
Using administrative data to measure FE outcomes
Education and training, Modelling and descriptives
Assessment of whether administrative data can replace surveys used to measure labour market outcomes from training
The school to work transition
Education and training, Employment and welfare, Modelling and descriptives
Visualising young people's early labour market transitions and estimating the importance of experience.
Evaluation of the JSA Skills Conditionality Pilot
Education and training, Employment and welfare, Evaluation, Randomised control
Evaluating the employment and welfare effects of compulsory training for JSA claimants
Lifelong learning
Education and training, Modelling and descriptives
Estimating the returns to gaining a qualification when age 25 or over
Work and Pensions Committee
Education and training, Employment and welfare
Work and Pensions Committee Specialist Advisor
The Employment Retention and Advancement demonstration
Education and training, Employment and welfare, Evaluation, Randomised control
Evaluating the employment, earnings and welfare effects of a piloted package of in-work support
Evaluation of Pathways to Work
Difference-in-differences, Duration analysis, Education and training, Employment and welfare, Evaluation, Health and Well-being
Evaluating the employment and earnings effects of increased conditionality and support for claimants of incapacity benefits
Evaluation of New Deal 25 Plus for the over- 50s
Education and training, Employment and welfare, Randomised control
Estimating the impact of making full New Deal participation compulsory for unemployed people over the age of 50
Work-Based Learning for Adults
Education and training, Employment and welfare, Matching
Evaluating the employment and earnings effects of a training programme for benefit claimants
Evaluation of New Deal for Young People
Education and training, Employment and welfare, Evaluation, Matching
Evaluating the relative effects of the New Deal for Young People "Options"