The government's Defence Investment Plan adds £3.8 billion a year, but how it will be funded and the path to 3.5% by 2035 ...

We examine the relationship between childhood socio-emotional skills and labour market outcomes using the 1970 British Cohort ...

Could devolution boost UK growth, or would it widen regional divides? We ask what shifting power from Westminster would ...

The government has chosen to follow the pay recommendations from the independent school teachers pay review body.

In our annual series of reports on education spending, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, we bring together data on education spending per student across the life cycle and provide analysis about the ...

How have household incomes evolved over your lifetime? What is the gap between rich and poor? How many people are there in poverty? Which groups are most likely to face poverty? These questions are ...

Spending on public support for early childhood education and care is the fastest-growing part of the education system, and one of the areas where public service spending has increased most quickly ...

Using the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) and Census data, we study multigenerational correlations in education across ...

The UK minimum wage has increased by more than 70% in real terms since 1999. What’s it doing to jobs, prices and profits - and what happens next?

New estimates by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) find that growth in mainstream school funding per pupil in England in 2025–26 (2.8% in cash terms) won’t be sufficient to cover the expected ...