Research
The latest from the world of education research including pedagogical studies, national school survey data and classroom case studies
Tuesday
17th Jun 2025
More school leavers in ‘positive destinations’ but university gap widens
The divide in university attendance between the most and least deprived school leavers grew to 34.7 percentage points for the 2023-24 cohort
How to boost children’s spatial skills - and their maths performance
Training children’s spatial abilities improves maths performance, studies show – and new research from the University of Surrey identifies practical teaching methods to do just that
Thursday
12th Jun 2025
EHCPs up 11% as DfE mulls their future
The number of education, health and care plans has more than doubled since 2016. Here are five key points from today’s DfE data
Why you could be getting whole-class feedback wrong
Whole-class feedback has the potential to be a workload saviour, says Alex Quigley, but does it always help learning?
DfE ‘should auto-enrol’ pupils for free school meals
Call for all eligible children to be automatically enrolled for FSM follows the government announcement that it is expanding the entitlement from next year