The long-awaited Schools White Paper, “Every child achieving and thriving,” arrived yesterday with lots to digest.

At the UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities, we study how policy can reduce inequality and improve life chances.

Here are 5 takeaways from CEPEO 👇

Why do people choose to become teachers?

Rigorous new evidence on this vital question for our education system in a new CEPEO working paper out today by @drsamsims.bsky.social & @clareroutledge.bsky.social

econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucl:ce...

New research with @clareroutledge.bsky.social

Funded by the Gatsby Foundation

We asked 2000 UK/US undergrads to choose between pairs of hypothetical jobs to understand how more of them could be tempted into teaching

CEPEO is launching a new Master's programme with @sriucl.bsky.social — this will support students to understand and conduct rigorous research addressing challenges in education policy & educational inequalities.

Applications now open for Oct 2026 start.

Find out more: www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...

Great work from @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social colleague @dominicpkelly.bsky.social on a topic that sits right at the intersection of two things I think about a lot: responsible tech & media, and education policy & child development.

Highly recommend giving this a read: 👇

Eye-opening data on the persistent gap in access to higher education for disadvantaged students. The work @paul-ed-martin.bsky.social & @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social are doing to highlight this is crucial. More needs to be done to address why these trends persist. 📊 #HigherEducation #EduSky

New research alert! 🚨 Today at EARLI SIG 15, CEPEO's @laouthwaite.bsky.social is presenting our latest research on early maths assessments for children aged 0-8. Discover the crucial gaps we’ve uncovered in identifying at-risk learners.

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#AcademicSky #EduSky #EducationalResearch

Overall single-word Ofsted grades for schools have been scrapped, with Phillipson arguing that they are "low information for parents and high stakes for schools"

Check out @drsamsims.bsky.social work on how little Ofsted reports tell parents about school quality

discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

Very important work, a very interesting read.

🎙️Level 3 results day blog post 🎙️

Bouncing off the runway blogs.ucl.ac.uk/cepeo/2024/0...

by @jakeanders.uk @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social and @gillwyness.bsky.social

Today’s results will be good news for many pupils, but continue to show vast inequality by school type, region, and gender. 📈📉