Thursday, 7 February 2019

High performing but less academic students need more ways to get on

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Dr Stefan Speckesser of NIESR and CVER discusses a comparison study of 16 to 18-year-old students following A-Level or vocational and tec...
Friday, 7 December 2018

New Causal Evidence Suggests Technical Education Positively Impacts Students

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Shaun M. Dougherty of Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, on the positive effects of the US Career and Technical Education  (CTE) sy...
Friday, 7 September 2018

Does starting an apprenticeship boost young people’s earnings?

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Chiara Cavaglia, Sandra McNally, Guglielmo Ventura Apprenticeships feature in the vocational education systems of many countries, alt...

Do older apprentices get the same earnings boost as younger ones?

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Steven McIntosh and Damon Morris There has been a huge increase in the number of people over the age of 25 who are undertaking appr...
Friday, 13 April 2018

Missing the mark at GCSE English: the costly consequences of just failing to get a grade C

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School students who narrowly fail to achieve a grade C in their GCSE English exam pay a high price, according to new research by Stephen M...
Wednesday, 11 April 2018

Choosing the best counterfactual for assessing the returns to qualifications

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Sophie Hedges of London Economics summarises a new paper which finds that, for both males and females, non-achievers are generally closer ...
Wednesday, 28 March 2018

Apprenticeships are changing: The Levy a year in

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Since the introduction of the Apprenticeship Levy a year ago there has been a shift from Intermediate Apprenticeships to the Advanced and...