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Key takeaway: graduates from white working class and disadvantaged ethnic minorities earn less than other graduates BUT a degree is especially valuable for them since non graduates from these groups do so very badly

Our new IPPR briefing explores 3 ways mayors can promote integration post-Covid: - Use skills powers to boost English language support - Factor migrants' skills in regional economic plans - Promote safe services for all regardless of migration status ippr.org/research/publi…

NEW: just updated our excess deaths figures, including data into April It’s abundantly clear that Latin America is the hardest-hit region in the world, with the five highest excess death rates globally. The UK is 21st out of 48 countries, and the US 24th ft.com/coronavirus-la…

Latin America’s urban hotspots have endured an especially brutal year. Deaths in the Peruvian capital Lima have been almost triple the norm. In Mexico City they’ve been double usual levels, and in Manaus almost the same.

READING FOR PLEASURE CHANGES LIVES! It has the biggest positive impact of any factor on children's life chances. So whatever else you do – please keep reading books with kids, and encouraging them to read. There is nothing more important. #literacy

Do read this brilliant piece by my colleague Emma Wagner. How do we bring education to children who are internally displaced Yasmine Sherif Pauline Rose savethechildren.org.uk/blogs/2021/shi…

The youngest kids in class are more likely to be diagnosed with a learning disorder – immaturity mistaken for a psychological disorder. 👎 acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jc… (N = 388,3650)

Sam Freedman Reminds me of Paul Swinney’s 2014 super-chart for Centre for Cities. London is a machine which sucks in young graduates and later spits them out into the South East

Distribution of suicide deaths in middle aged men, by the level of deprivation in the areas where the men lived. Health inequalities are not abstract statistics. They are lives needlessly lost, families devastated. Our new report NCISH

New polling from Public First for Higher Education Policy Institute and UPP Foundation shows views on free speech in HE - driven by specific examples. We asked about ten scenarios and whether such individuals should be allowed to speak on campus, based only on that fact. hepi.ac.uk/2021/05/17/165…

Former education minister, now vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi, says teachers' unions are to blame for Sir Kevan Collins' not getting his education recovery plan because they "resisted extending the school day in the first place". I asked @MaryBoustedNEU, head of...

A few points to make on the "white working class" select committee report and coverage. (Thread)

“White British pupils living in disadvantaged circumstances are the lowest attaining group” No, not from today’s Select Committee report on white working class pupils but from Steve Strand’s report from 2008. (dera.ioe.ac.uk/7916/1/DCSF-RR…). 1/

Why is the whole mass media convinced that the govt wants to do something about school students failing? GCSEs and A-levels have a built-in, locked-in failure rate.

If you want to help disadvantaged schools overstaff them and decrease loads. This isn't a problem you can fix by paying people more to work in them.

Just 1% of GCSE English literature students study a book by a writer of colour. No more than 7% study a book by a woman. #LitInColour aims to help change that. (1/3)

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There's a teacher shortage coming. It's been coming for a while, but was staved off by the pandemic. Now, it's heaving back into view & it isn't pretty. It's easy to blame the DfE, but I think some other things are happening that matter outside of education too 🧵... STRAP IN!

Which types of social capital best explain economic mobility? Using data from Facebook, we consider more than a dozen social capital measures and our answers appear in a pair of papers in nature: nature.com/articles/s4158… 1/5

With more powerful AI systems comes more responsibility to identify novel capabilities in models. 🔍 Our new research looks at evaluating future 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦 risks, which may cause harm through misuse or misalignment. Here’s a snapshot of the work. 🧵 dpmd.ai/novel-ai-risks