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Nick Pearce
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Follow Nick on TwitterNick Pearce is the Director of IPPR, having rejoined the institute in 2010 after serving as Head of the Policy Unit at No 10. An author and regular commentator on public policy in broadcast and print media, Nick writes on a wide range of issues, from social justice, public service reform and identity politics to the future of social democracy.
Nick blogs on things that matter to our public life, from the heart of progressive thinking in Britain.
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There is now a strong, cross-party consensus on the importance of apprenticeships. Rescued from near death in the mid-1990s and expanded under recent governments, apprenticeship places are now much more widely available in our economy. Despite this success, however, British … Continue reading
Is it possible to be family-friendly but unfriendly to women? Tomorrow, Nick Clegg will announce that the right to request flexible working will be extended to all employees, as signalled in the Queen’s speech earlier this year. This is good … Continue reading
From September 2014, primary schools will have to teach a foreign language to pupils in key stage 2 (7–11 year olds). Many already teach foreign languages, in part because of the last Labour government’s decision to introduce an entitlement to … Continue reading
Today has seen two important announcements on childcare and early years learning: the final report of the Nutbrown Review of early learning and childcare qualifications and the establishment by Number 10 of an Affordable Childcare Commission. These are both welcome … Continue reading
Thousands of pupils and parents are anxiously waiting for GCSE results, this week. Many parents will have invested hundreds of pounds on ‘topping-up’ their children’s schooling with private tutoring, while others will not have even considered supplementing the work their … Continue reading
The New York Times had an interesting piece at the weekend about Mandarin immersion charter schools. Controversially, parents in New Jersey want to set up charter schools in middle class areas, with a specialist focus on Mandarin. As with the … Continue reading
I’ve written a piece for IPPR’s journal, PPR, on social mobility. The gist of the argument is this: despite its cross-party appeal, social mobility is becoming an increasingly narrow concept in government policy that leaves broad swathes of the population … Continue reading
There has been a lot of media interest recently in the LSE research on the impact of academies by Stephen Machin and James Vernoit. This excellent research paper gives supporters of academy schools plenty of grounds for believing that the … Continue reading
Today’s quarterly immigration statistics make for interesting reading. Net migration continued to rise in the year to June 2010, but this increase was driven largely by falling emigration (of both UK and non-UK nationals), rather than rising immigration. This poses a … Continue reading
Here’s an inspiration for a free school or, even better, a University Technical College: Black Mountain College. Instead of a school for young people ‘turned off by purely academic study‘, as David Cameron puts it, how about one for students radically turned … Continue reading
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