Latest Publications

New research from the Social Market Foundation think tank finds that the government is on course to miss its targets of widening participation in higher education – and has found significant differences between institutions’ intake of pupils from both minority and disadvantaged backgrounds.

This briefing paper summarises early findings from the first part of the project, which looks at the value of apprenticeships to workers in terms of how much extra earnings an apprenticeship delivers.

In this paper Professor Alison Wolf examines the Government's commitment to create 3 million new apprenticeships which will deliver the skills needed to boost productivity.

What more can be done by policymakers to encourage more of the type of entrepreneurial activity that has the widest positive effect on the UK economy – what we term “high value entrepreneurship”.

Children who attend private school will earn £193,700 more on average in their early careers than their state educated peers, according to our new independent report which analyses the Sutton Trust's Open Access programme.

In this report Anthony Seldon outlines proposals aimed at ending the divide between state and independent schools, widening access to private education, bringing new money into the state system and reducing the domination of places at the top state schools by children from well off parents. His proposals are bold and above all they need political leadership and vision to bring them about.

In this pamphlet, the Minister for Universities and Science, the Rt Hon David Willetts MP, explores how the Robbins Report influences Government policy today and sets out his vision for the Higher Education system.

In this publication, the Social Market Foundation outlines a new funding model which takes the best of two existing proposals – tuition fees and a graduate tax – to build a system that creates a fair market for students and universities alike.

SMF Briefing Note on Higher Tuition Fees