Thrilled to see our childcare policy research cited by Plaid Cymru and directly feeding into their manifesto pledge announced today at their party conference - includes a new universal offer of 20hrs per week of funded childcare for all children from the age of 9 months to 4 years…

Our research published today by DfE highlights the importance of not seeing the childcare sector as one monolithic block, with half the sector not being able to cover their costs. @le-education.bsky.social assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68d11e...

Dear Lord, university finance figures are bad. 40% of them have negative Net Cash Inflow; their assets to liabilities capacity is declining rapidly; 24 of them had fewer than 30 liquidity days on hand even in 2023/24. 😓😱 www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/07/08/t...

🚨 New analysis by London Economics for @savechildrenuk.bsky.social highlights significant funding shortfalls in government support for childcare, and sets out funding requirements to improve quality and inclusivity. 📍 Link to @le-education.bsky.social summary londoneconomics.co.uk/blog/publica...

Delighted to have attended a 2 day session hosted by the Royal Society of Edinburgh looking at the funding of tertiary education in Scotland. We looked at the funding arrangements across the 4 Home Nations of the UK. Some stark differences! Here is the link. londoneconomics.co.uk/blog/publica...

A new report published today by London Economics highlights how the N8 Research Partnership is driving jobs, innovation & growth across the North - and beyond. www.n8research.org.uk/new-report-r...

Our report for @n8research.bsky.social assessing the impact of N8 universities’ research, knowledge exchange and institutional expenditures on the UK economy is out today. We find a total economic impact of the N8 Research Partnership across these strands of impact of £18.8 billion in 2021-22.

Our report for the National Union of Students and University of the Arts London was published today, modelling an alternative undergraduate funding system consisting of the reintroduction of maintenance grants for the least well-off students, combined with a ‘stepped repayment’ system.

New report out today illustrating the University of Sheffield's @sheffielduni.bsky.social economic and social impact (£4.82bn). Nice infographics and explainers here www.sheffield.ac.uk/about/econom...

we administered a choice experiment to assess the impact of loan forgiveness on nurse retention. We found that student loan forgiveness would lead to nurses working for 7-10 years longer in the public sector. Makes a lot of economic sense. londoneconomics.co.uk/blog/publica... @rcn.org.uk

This is absolutely brilliant stuff …. well done @su-min-lee.bsky.social and thanks to the Nuffield Foundation for funding the research

Delighted to see the economic impact analysis of Waltham Forest College published today www.waltham.ac.uk/images/repor... On top of the massive learning impact of the College, we identified an economic impact of £304 million (and a benefit-to-cost ratio of 11.6).

Great to see our @le-education.bsky.social childcare research cited by the Early Years Alliance, who highlight the significant increases in average early years fees paid for by parents: between 6.8% and 9.1% increases across age groups from 2023 to 2024. www.eyalliance.org.uk/news/2024/12...

▶️ For more highlights, read the summary here londoneconomics.co.uk/blog/publica... and follow @le-education.bsky.social for more childcare analysis, including our recent report published by the DfE on the state of providers' finances.

Important thread on new analysis of childcare provider survey below. Well worth a read!!

Here is a fantastic new report on the state of the childcare sector in England. Lots on finances, costs, workforce and funding …. @su-min-lee.bsky.social

Nice to be on this week’s @wonkhe.bsky.social podcast: HE finances; SHAPE coldspots; and the Telegraph’s (really the Socialist Worker) view on students wonkhe.com/blogs/podcas...

One of the best lead indicators of UK economic performance - New Car Registrations - *declined* by 6% this month against a consensus forecast of +1%. That’s really troubling.

Well, we have been asked to provide a session on HEI finances to @advancehe.bsky.social. Always a pleasure, but its unlikely to be pretty ☹️

LE Education will be predominantly posting here in future - lots of HE related material but a lot of labour and early years analysis too!

Delighted to publish several new reports on higher education fees and funding systems across the four UK Home Nations. Funded by the Nuffield Foundation and supported by HEPI, we aim to inform the policy debate in the run-up to the General Election londoneconomics.co.uk/blog/publica...