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Labour’s Record on the Under Fives: Policy, Spending and Outcomes 1997-2010

Stewart, Kitty - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2013

When Labour came to power in 1997 it made commitments to reduce poverty and improve children's health, education and wider life chances. Early childhood was considered central to the strategy, and considerable resources were invested in very young children. This paper examines the main policies...

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Refinancing Europe’s Higher Education through Deferred and Income-Contingent Fees: An empirical assessment using Belgian, German and UK data

Debande, O; Vandenberghe, Vincent - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2007

The arguments for refinancing the European Union's (EU) higher education via higher tuition fees largely rest on preserving the profitability of the educational investment and offering deferred and income-contingent payments. Using income survey datasets on Belgium, Germany and the United...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201263

Refinancing Europe’s Higher Education through Deferred and Income-Contingent Fees: An empirical assessment using Belgian, German and UK data

Debande, O; Vandenberghe, Vincent - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2007

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005151110

Fiscal costs of climate mitigation programmes in the UK: A challenge for social policy?

Gough, Ian; Marden, Sam - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2011

This paper asks whether the policies and programmes enacted to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the UK will compete with other goals of public policy, in particular social policy goals. The Climate Change Act 2008 has set the UK some of the most demanding targets in the world: to reduce GHG...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201189

Fiscal costs of climate mitigation programmes in the UK: A challenge for social policy?

Gough, Ian; Marden, Sam - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2011

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009148909

Public and Private Welfare Activity in the United Kingdom, 1979 to 1999

Smithies, Rachel - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2005

This paper analyses the shifting balance between public sector and private sector welfare provision in the United Kingdom over the past two decades. Five sectors - education, health, personal social services, housing, and income maintenance and social security - are examined over three time...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005797322

Understanding low achievement in English schools

Cassen, Robert; Kingdon, Geeta Gandhi - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2007

Tens of thousands of young people leave school with no or very few qualifications in England. This paper seeks to build … correlation with unobserved school and neighborhood quality, i.e. the role of sorting into schools and neighborhoods of different … quality. We suggest a method of calculating school quality (how effective a school is in helping its pupils to avoid low …

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Family Income and Tertiary Education Attendance across the EU: An empirical assessment using sibling data

Vandenberghe, Vincent - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2007

There is plenty of evidence across the EU to suggest that young people from poorer backgrounds are less likely to attend tertiary education than their better-off peers. This correlation is often used to justify monetary transfers to families with students. It is not clear, however, that these...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201170

Understanding low achievement in English schools

Cassen, Robert; Kingdon, Geeta Gandhi - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2007

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005151097

Schools in Disadvantaged Areas: Recognising context and raising quality

Lupton, Ruth - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2004

Both educational attainment and school quality are typically lower in disadvantaged areas than others and much recent … another, in ways that are not reflected by the usual indicators of disadvantage. School managers respond by adapting … organisation design and curriculum. Challenging contexts and the constraints on school responses together exert a downward pressure …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005151119