Tag Archives: Education and Skills

The Social Market Foundation, a cross-party think-tank, is warning of a skills shortfall among mechanics trained to service and repair electric vehicles (EVs). Shortages of qualified technicians risks driving up...

The Social Market Foundation says that emphasis on A-Levels as the only route into university tends to mainly benefit affluent white young people, while overlooking the interests of those from...

The Social Market Foundation think-tank found that FTSE-100 companies are 64 times more likely to address environmental issues than to discuss poverty in their statements about Environmental, Social and Governance...

Parents given multiple options for their child’s school are no happier about education than those who have little choice, according to research published in the Journal of Social Policy. The...

The Social Market Foundation said that the Government strategy aimed at decarbonising home heating does not give plumbers and other workers enough incentive to get training to install the heat...

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The figures are revealed in new research from the Social Market Foundation, which is calling on ministers and the new university regulator, the Office for Students, to do more to...

The research finds that although the FE and skills sector faces a series of challenges over the next two decades, it can seize the opportunity to play an even greater...

The Social Market Foundation’s (SMF) cross-party Commission on Inequality in Education has called on the government and Ofsted to consider how they can help schools and other educational institutions to engage parents with their child’s learning.