📰Our Associate Director for School System and Performance, Louis Hodge spoke to Schools Week about the possible implications of plans for schools in Brighton to prioritise places for the poorest children👇 schoolsweek.co.uk/brighton-hopes…

🗣️Louis Hodge, Associate Director for School System and Performance at EPI, said: “The effect of public spending on children and young people’s life chances cannot be measured by the effects of spending in schools alone.

✍️Following yesterday's publication of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) results, EPI's Louis Hodge explores the key insights behind the headlines for Tes. 📰Read the article in full here: tes.com/magazine/analy…

Drop in student wellbeing and falling science scores: worrying trends from the #PISA22 results highlighted by Education Policy Institute associate director Louis Hodge tes.com/magazine/analy… tes.com/magazine/analy…

🚨NEW RESEARCH: Effective School Groups🚨 Today EPI has launched a new online web tool that enables users to build a more rounded understanding of the performance of school groups in England. 🖱️Access the tool here: edu-policy-inst.shinyapps.io/inclusion-metr…

Not only do London children experience air pollution well above WHO guidelines but it is worse for children in deprived neighbourhoods. Great first look at the data by Louis Hodge epi.org.uk/publications-a…

How can employers & policymakers better use data to drive social mobility? Join Demos & Social Mobility Commission to discuss this and more tomorrow morning. 🗣️Resham Kotecha, Louis Hodge & Co-op Public Affairs Director Paul Gerrard Attend in-person or online⬇️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-can-bett…

A pleasure to host this morning's panel on how better data can drive social mobility, in partnership with Social Mobility Commission. Great insights from the panel Resham Kotecha, Louis Hodge and Paul Gerrard (Co-op), chaired by Polly Curtis. Such a rich discussion - thanks for joining us!

Great to share our new tool today which compares school group performance across a range of attainment and inclusion metrics...updated version coming in April with additional metrics on workforce and finance 👀

Air quality is an issue for all schools. Our research Education Policy Institute found every school in London is located in an area with levels of NO2 and PM2.5 above WHO guidelines. We also identified an association between school deprivation and pollution levels. t.ly/Oyg8S

Today we publish the first report using our new school funding model. We find that even if per pupil funding increases in real terms over the next decade, this could still result in cuts to school budgets due to falling pupil number. Read the full report: epi.org.uk/publications-a…

Multi-academy trusts have higher secondary-level teacher turnover than local authority schools theguardian.com/education/2024…

Will Labour's private school tax plan 'destroy the state sector'? Obviously not, experts insist bigissue.com/news/politics/…

🗣️EPI's Louis Hodge spoke to Big Issue about Labour's plans to end tax breaks for independent schools, how this could impact the state sector and how money raised could be spent to support disadvsntaged pupils. Read the article below👇 bigissue.com/news/politics/…

🗳️NEW EPI REPORT: general election manifesto analysis🗳️ 📝Ahead of the general election on 4th July, we have published an analysis of the plans for education set out in the manifestos of the main political parties in England. 📖Read the report in full: epi.org.uk/publications-a…

Since 2019 disadvantaged pupils at ages 5, 11 and 16 have all fallen further behind their peers, whilst the 16-19 gap has stagnated. In primary and secondary, progress has gone backwards by one full month since 2019, with the gap at its widest for both phases since 2011.

📝BLOG: Examining post-pandemic absences in England (3) Our blog, released today, finds that the latest government data shows overall absence rates in schools are falling, but there is a widening gap between vulnerable children and their peers.👇 epi.org.uk/publications-a…

🗣️Response to today's results from Louis Hodge:

📚 Are GCSEs the best thing for 16-year-olds to show as they leave secondary education? 🎧 On the #Daily, Niall Paterson speaks to headteachers Becky Arnold and Farhan Adam, and Louis Hodge from the Education Policy Institute. ➡️ podfollow.com/skynewsdaily

🚨The latest blog by EPI researchers Tammy Campbell, Kerris Cooper, and Louis Hodge, funded by Nuffield Foundation, delves into the disparities in Free School Meals (FSM) registration. Read the full blog on our website here: epi.org.uk/publications-a…