New @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social working paper! Estimating heterogeneous returns to college by cognitive and non-cognitive ability by our @opmc1.bsky.social econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucl:ce...

📢📢📢New academic year, new seminar series!! ⬇️ We've got a great line up of speakers for Autumn 2025. Join us in-person and online fortnightly on Thursdays at 3PM. Sign up to join online here: ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🎓Want to learn about the Longitudinal Educational Outcomes (LEO) dataset, a state-of-the-art linked education-labour+more resource? We're running online and in-person courses: 🦁 30 Sep-1 Oct (AM, online) tinyurl.com/leo-online 🦁 7 Oct (in-person): Practical Intro to LEO tinyurl.com/leo-practical

📢📢@clairetyler.bsky.social co-wrote this with Zero Gravity to provide evidence-based actions for employers to improve social mobility in their hiring. Key evidence comes from her work on access to professions work with @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social and Catherine Dilnot. ise.org.uk/knowledge/in...

Interested in using the National Pupil Database (NPD) in your research but don't know where to start? Or just want to learn more about this great resource? Sign up for our online course on the NPD next Tues and Weds (23-24 Sept) supported by ADR UK: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cepeo-adru...

Some much needed insight into the challenges the government is facing in reforming the SEND system in England from our friends @theifs.bsky.social today

📢 As well as our online training courses (see below) we are also pleased to announce our first practical training workshop on Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) data using R in partnership with @adruk.bsky.social 🦁 🕕10.30am-4.30pm on 7th Oct - IN PERSON ONLY @ UCL Sign up: tinyurl.com/2bnwprfa

Last call for today’s seminar at 11am! Be there or be uninformed about how we can continue to improve teacher education!

We have more of our online courses on using administrative data, supported by ADR UK, coming up soon. ➡ National Pupil Database (NPD) 23-24 Sept www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cepeo-adru... ➡ Longitudinal Educational Outcomes (LEO) 30 Sep - 1 October: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cepeo-adru...

We have an exceptional seminar on Thursday this week at 11am, with Dr Julie Cohen of University of Virginia: "Experimental evidence on modularising context in teacher education" Sign up now: ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

With government funded childcare for working families of 0-2-yr-olds rising to 30 hrs/wk from today, check out this @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social blog highlighting why we need to keep a careful eye on take-up of early education amongst disadvantaged 2-yr-olds over the next few months . . .

Are you interested in teacher coaching, simulation, transfer of training? Join us at 11am (online) for this talk on Thursday. Sign up using the link below: ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

GCSE results are out: On the surface, today’s results seem cause for relative optimism. Despite this cohort’s tough time — both final year at primary & first year of secondary were disrupted by COVID; rates of SEND and mental health issues also up among this group — there’s no results drop off.

We should not accept 1 in 8 of our 16-24 year olds shut out of learning or earning. Dreadful for young people, economy & society. Purposeful government can make a difference - but it will require learning lessons, real focus & new resource. Me in the @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/97da...

With results out tomorrow, GCSEs will be in the spotlight this week. Last month our PhD student @robbiemaris.bsky.social wrote about the issue of GCSE English and maths resits for the CEPEO blog - take a look if you missed it blogs.ucl.ac.uk/cepeo/2025/0...

LEO is a powerful administrative dataset which brings together education, employment and earnings records for entire cohorts of people. Find out more about how you can use it in your research in our free online training on Tues 30th Sep and Weds 1st October 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cepeo-adru...

Looking for an introduction to the National Pupil Database and its linked datasets? Join us for our next free online training session on 23rd and 24th September, delivered by our experienced researchers 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cepeo-adru...

Do students who follow the "traditional" education pathway (A levels to HE) fare better than those following "non-standard" vocational / mixed pathways - including the infamous T Level? Our PhD student @robbiemaris.bsky.social has the answers, in his new paper:

What do progression pathways for T Level students look like? New CEPEO paper from Robbie Maris repec-cepeo.ucl.ac.uk/cepeow/cepeo...

A level results are out! And as many have reported, there was an overall improvement in the proportion of students gaining the top grades. But its not good news for everyone: with London & the South East continuing to pull away from the rest of the country, and boys slightly ahead of girls.

Check out this new collection of essays looking back at education policy in England since 2010 Includes a chapter from CEPEO’s Jake Anders books.google.com/books/about/...

Primary school apps open soon Children are eligible to apply if 4yo by next Sept, creating large differences in age upon entry (depending on month of birth) This piece highlights big variation across local authorities in whether they allow parents to defer entry: www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Any plans for Tuesday 30th Sep and Wednesday 1st Oct? In collaboration with Administrative Data Research (ADR) UK, we are running an online and FREE training course as an introduction to the Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) dataset. More details + sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cepeo-adru...

Yesterday was Results Day in Scotland! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Congratulations to everyone who got their results today and everyone who helped them along the way. Catch up on this years trends in the data here: www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/114509.h...

Join us on September 23rd and 24th for an online (and free!) introduction to using the National Pupil Database and its linked data. Our experienced team will showcase some of our research using the NPD and guide you on how to apply to use it. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cepeo-adru...

Today the DfE have published their latest stats on widening participation in HE. Here are a few quick thoughts... explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statist...

I wrote a briefing note on early years' screen time and its effects on cognitive development! Take a look...

That BBC screen time story that just hit your home screen? Our new policy briefing is the must-read for parents, policymakers, and childcare providers: 3 clear, actionable recommendations based on the latest evidence on screen time and cognitive development. 🔗 econpapers.repec.org/paper/uclcep...

How should we train new teachers? New research from @drsamsims.bsky.social suggests breaking teaching sequences into parts, then recomposing them in new contexts, helps teachers adapt better than learning whole sequences from the start. Read more here: 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📝New @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social working paper Why are students from elite high schools much more likely to go to high ranked university courses than equally qualified students from the state sector? 🤔 w @opmc1.bsky.social @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social & Jo Blanden econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucl:ce...

£168m in new funding for ADR UK means more linked data on schools, outcomes, pay and social care. Linked data infrastructure may not make headlines, but it underpins CEPEO's work for public good. 👍 A good day for evidence. 👎 A bad day for vibes-based policymaking. 🔗 www.ukri.org/news/168m-bo...

'For me, education is very important. If you want to change something in the world, it is with education' - Nadia Nadim. After the Lionesses' inspiring victory yesterday, this piece on the refugee turned footballer and doctor shows education's transformative power. www.unesco.org/en/gender-eq...

New @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social blog from Claire Crawford shows biggest drops in take-up of early ed amongst disadv 2-yr-olds occurred in areas where it looks like demand for working families entitlement may be high, so overlapping entitlement may not explain whole fall Read more: tinyurl.com/y65tt3zr

New @feweek.bsky.social op-ed from our PhD student @robbiemaris.bsky.social showing huge improvements in literacy and numeracy for young adults between 2012 and 2023... but a very concerning lack of progress for the lowest performing students feweek.co.uk/bottom-10-pe...

I love maths and Lucy

New stats out today from DfE give us our first comprehensive look at take-up of the new early education entitlements. Very interesting reading, including a potentially concerning fall in take-up for disadvantaged 2-yr-olds. We've been doing some digging and will have more to say over next few days.

We've had a few places open up for the R version of this in-person practical course next Tuesday! Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cepeo-adru...

Our DD @gillwyness.bsky.social has written a brief thread discussing UCAS's pilot to provide feedback to schools on how accurate their predictions were ⬇️

🎉🎉🎉🎉 Huge congratulations to our very own @dominicpkelly.bsky.social on winning an early-career grant award from @srcdorg.bsky.social. Go multiverse! www.srcd.org/news/announc...

Professor Claire Crawford introduces our in-person NPD training for @adruk2025.bsky.social this morning using new synthetic administrative data - very exciting new development for us. Today’s course is using STATA & next week will be R (fully booked!). Sign up to our mail list for further courses

What a fantastic #annyleccy from @chloergibbs.bsky.social last night! Great insights on such a topical policy area. Thank you so much to Chloe for a fab day with the @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social team and to everyone who braved the heat to join us last night - it was wonderful to see so many people there!

⌛Just 24hrs until our annual lecture with @chloergibbs.bsky.social and it couldn't be more topical! With the Best Start in Life strategy released this week, join us to learn about making smart investments in early childhood. 🕕6pm tomorrow, Central Hall Westminster Register: tinyurl.com/bdh3jcky

Last call to join us in person for a practical introduction to the English National Pupil Database using Stata: 10.30am-4.30pm on Monday 14th July at UCL Available free to participants thanks to the generous support of @adr-uk.bsky.social Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1416807040...

Great to see @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social research and policy priorities informing the new Best Start in Life strategy: 🏠Best Start Family Hubs in disadvantaged areas 🚸Renewed focus on inclusive early years provision/funding 🔢Importance of early maths skills 💷Consultation on complex funding system

New @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social blog post. Our brilliant PhD student @robbiemaris.bsky.social has been looking at inequalities in resit performance. Those performing worst in resits are: - Disadvantaged students - Students w unauthorised absences in year 11 - Students entered into resits too early

Our @gillwyness.bsky.social is navigating the economics of UK higher education in the @ioe.bsky.social podcast this week! check it out below: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/202...

And we are super excited to have you too @chloergibbs.bsky.social ! Sign up below to come and join us in Westminster. Our annual lectures are our favourite gig of the year, and this one couldn't be more relevant!

Young adults remain a key group The proportion of young adults (aged 16 to 24), with a common mental health condition, rose from 17.5% in 2007 to 25.8% in 2023/4 There's an urgent need to better understand the drivers of this increase in prevalence digital.nhs.uk/data-and-inf...

4 Professors celebrating! Congratulations to our @nikkishure.bsky.social on becoming a Full Professor ❤️

Congratulations to our @paul-ed-martin.bsky.social and family on the safe arrival of their baby She’ll be the envy of all her baby pals with her very own @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social vest Welcome to the CEPEO crew, baby Annie