The Social Market Foundation is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank, standing proudly in the centre-ground of politics since 1989. We bring together people of all parties and none, to develop evidence-based policies that support a fair society and a strong economy.
Publication
Missing the story: the UK media’s neglect of Further Education
This essay is not a conventional think-tank report. It is not, directly at least, about government policies or national priorities, but about the climate in which policies and priorities are set.
| Published: | 31 March 2021 |
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| Author: | James Kirkup |
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Stuck in the middle with you
In response to the Government’s proposals for a 'New Plan for Immigration', this report argues that the UK should amend its existing immigration rules to allow safe and legal routes for more people to enter the UK on humanitarian grounds who can more easily integrate and make economic contributions to the UK.
| Published: | 25 March 2021 |
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| Author(s): | Russell Hargrave, Jonathan Thomas |
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Graduate outcomes in London
This research, supported by the Greater London Authority, focuses on how the outcomes of graduates who have studied in London and those from London vary by a range of different characteristics.
| Published: | 18 March 2021 |
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| Author: | Kathryn Petrie |
News
New opportunity: Events and Office Administrator
A fantastic opportunity to join the Social Market Foundation - Britain's leading cross-party think tank - in a role supporting the delivery of our events and day-to-day activities. Applications close at 5pm on Tuesday 20 April 2021
| Published: | 30 March 2021 |
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Media Release
Reform immigration rules to provide more safe routes into the UK for refugees who can better contribute economically
In its ‘New Plan for Immigration’ the Government has re-stated its desire to continue prioritising the resettling of refugees. However, it also issues concern that those refugees struggle to find...
| Published: | 25 March 2021 |
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Media Release
Black graduates get worse degrees and earn less than white peers
Black graduates of UK universities are less likely than their white peers to get a first-class degree, less likely to end up in graduate-level work and less likely to earn above £25,000, new data reveal today.
| Published: | 18 March 2021 |
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How can retail banks do what matters to drive the post-COVID recovery?
Retail banks have been at the heart of the UK’s economic response to the coronavirus pandemic: supporting the nation to manage its money through the terrible personal and financial costs the disease has wreaked – from payment holidays through to bounce back loans. Now, banks have a new role to play. Not only in supporting economic recovery, but in ‘building back better’: resetting the balance between generating investor returns and serving community interests.
A step change for capitalism
The past year’s public health crisis has provoked an extraordinary economic intervention by the Government. Only the most diehard of free market advocates have decried the approach. Instead, there has been a wide recognition, right across the political spectrum, that if the economy is to weather these unprecedented circumstances, ideology must be firmly set aside.
Expecting better: Labour’s renewed relationship with business
The Coronavirus crisis has affected us all, although not equally. Experiences of the last year depend considerably on where in the country you live, your ethnicity, gender, the nature of your job and the type of business in which you work.