My colleague Gill has written a great thread on our new WP out today which documents huge gaps in university match across students from private vs state schools in the UK. 🧵⬇️

Gill has written a great thread on our @iza.org WoL article which came out last week. Read the thread then read the paper

🚨🚨 Seminar this Thursday at 3PM 🚨🚨 Join us to hear @mattdickson.bsky.social talk about what happened to human capital and labour market returns when England raised the school-leaving age to 18! Register here to join online: ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

📢 New report out today 📢 Interested in social mobility, gender & racial inequalities in access to professional careers? ➡️ Report: repec-cepeo.ucl.ac.uk/cepeow/cepeo... ➡️ Blog post: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/cepeo/2025/0... By @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social, @clairetyler.bsky.social, and C. Dilnot

💡CEPEO Seminar coming up next week! 💡 We are very lucky to have Silke Anger from Institute for Employment Research (IAB) presenting her work on offering high school students access to assistance from professional career counselors. Thursday 27th Feb, sign up here: ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

⌛Last few places remaining for our popular NPD training course. Online next Monday and Tuesday mornings (3/4 March) and free thanks to the generous support of ADRUK. Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cepeo-adru...

Ready for our first seminar of 2025? "It’s alright for some: Are the effects of school exclusion heterogeneous?" Andrew McClean will discuss his work examining the effects of school exclusion. 📅Join us 23rd Jan, 3-4pm. Online or in person at UCL. ➡️Sign up here: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

We're delighted to be welcoming Dr Matthew Easterbrook to give our next @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social seminar at 3pm on Thursday. He'll be talking about the importance of local context for understanding educational inequalities and intervention effectiveness Sign-up: ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Join us this Thursday for our next CEPEO seminar. We will be hosting Dr Anna Raute from QMUL, who will share her latest research on family-friendly workplace policies. When: Thurs 28th Nov 3-4pm Where: Online or Room G1 25-26 Woburn Square, London More info & sign up: ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

📈New @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social /CVER @cep-lse.bsky.social working paper 📉 The mismatch earnings penalty with @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social @richmurphy-econ.bsky.social Konstantina Maragkou and Chiara Cavaglia econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucl:cepeow… 📈📉

We are pleased to see strong investment in education, including to attract and retain teachers, in today's budget. It is a proven, long-term driver of growth and the budget starts to deliver against some of our CEPEO evidence-based policy priorities: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/departme...

💼New @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social working paper 💼 Individuals from low SES backgrounds enter less prestigious & lower earning occupations than those from high SES backgounds, even with the same qualifications. New from @gillwyness.bsky.social @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social & @richmurphy-econ.bsky.social

🚨🚨New CEPEO WP from our very own @jakeanders.uk and Erica Holt-White (Sutton Trust) which highlights growing inequalities in wellbeing and mental health following the pandemic using data from the COSMO study. WP here: econpapers.repec.org/paper/uclcep... 🧵here: bsky.app/profile/jake...

🚨🚨New briefing note by @gillwyness.bsky.social and @richmurphy-econ.bsky.social on the HE funding problem and some possible solutions: 🥇Restore maintenance grants 🥈Phased fee increases 🥉Don't scrap the current system: its fundamentals are good Read it here 👉 econpapers.repec.org/paper/uclcep...

🚨🚨Our next CEPEO seminar will be on the 17 October hosted by the Department for Education. CEPEO visitor Rich Murphy is presenting his work on teacher judgements. Sign up at the link below to join us online! ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

CEPEO is 5 years old! 🎂🎉 This week we'll be celebrating with a 5 year anniversary recap of some our working papers, briefing notes and blog posts! Stay tuned 📻

Myself and @richmurphy-econ.bsky.social have written and thought a lot about HE finance. Here is our take on the current problems facing the sector: 1. Restore maintenance grants 2. Begin phased restoration of fees/maintenance loans 3. Dont scrap the current system: it's fundamentals are good