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• Blocking the Best: Obstacles to new, independent state schools

  17 March 2010

  This report examines the changes required to make an expanded programme of genuinely independent state schools a reality.

• More Fees Please?

  11 February 2010

  More Fees Please? warns that with the Government’s student loan debt expected to rocket to £55 billion by 2018, the Treasury will not be able to afford a rise in fees without a radical change to the system of student support.

• Changing the Channel: A case for radical reform of the Public Service Broadcasting in the UK

  14 January 2010

  This report warns that public service broadcasting needs to be radically overhauled if it is to survive in the new digital age.

• Simply Learning: Improving the skills system in England

  08 January 2010

  This report looks at the skills system in England in order to understand the problems which beset it and to offer recommendations for reform. It offers a critique of the 2006 Leitch review, which is seen as the major driving force behind recent Government policy on skills.

• Innovation and Industry: The Role of Universities

  23 November 2009

  Innovation and Industry: The Role of Universities looks at how universities could form a key part of Britain’s economic recovery by acting as incubators of business and providers of expertise.

• Science Fiction? Uncovering the real level of science skills at school and university

  28 September 2009

  Our report debunks the Government's claims about the performance and take-up of science subjects at every level – GCSE, A Level and degree. Instead, misleading figures and lowered standards were found to behind many of the apparent ‘improvements’, with the result that British businesses now face a critical skills shortage.

• Educating Rita? A model to address inadequate state support for part-time students

  18 August 2009

  Educating Rita recommends that the government must invest £33 million to begin tackling the chronic underfunding of part-time students who currently receive a fraction of the support given to their younger full-time counterparts.

• Building Blocks: An investigation into Building Schools for the Future

  13 July 2009

  The report recommends that Labour's flagship Building Schools for the Future programme should be radically simplified and the quango who currently delivers this project - Partnerships for Schools - should have its remit curtailed.