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We are delighted to announce that Dr. Rebecca Montacute will be joining the SMF as our new Research Director from July .

We're delighted at the Russell Group's announcement today, which will enable more people to access higher education🎓 You can read Dani's report which called for this below👇 smf.co.uk/publications/b…

69% of children living in poverty do have parent(s) that work, Julia. But I also don’t think we should let children starve in a rich country just because you don’t like the circumstances of their parents.

Universities are crucial drivers of social mobility & while they do a great job providing pathways for disadvantaged students to climb up the ladder, new research from Social Market Foundation & Dani shows that they could do better for local students.

Delighted to see Social Market Foundation report Leave to Achieve highlight the South-West Social Mobility Commission as a blueprint for regional approaches to tackling barriers to opportunity. We need a national vision for social mobility, but local implementation. smf.co.uk/wp-content/upl…

We feature in a new Social Market Foundation report on the contribution universities make to regional social mobility. It highlights some of the positive work we're doing to encourage students from North East England to apply to Durham & thrive 👉brnw.ch/21wTgJS Dani

We welcome today’s report on universities and their key role in promoting social mobility from Social Market Foundation. It's great to see several pieces of our research cited in the report, including our latest piece on the geography of social mobility and opportunity ⬇️

@DaniHPayne notes that the #SpendingReview fails to provide higher education with the funding it needs 🎓 Read the SMF's full response below 👇: smf.co.uk/the-social-mar…

I’m not as much of a fan of podcasts as most people tend to be, as I don’t think there’s enough hours in the day for them all … and anyway I like live radio. But I make an exception for Tom’s podcasts, which are generally brilliantly informative - including this one:

Had a brilliant time on a sunny Friday afternoon chatting with Katie and Tom about the Spending Review. What was announced for HE (spoiler: not much 🥲)? What might the post-16 white paper bring for the sector? And what is on my DfE policy wish-list? 🎁💵

On the Inside Your Ed podcast, Dani set out the positives and drawbacks for Higher Education from last week's Spending Review.🎓 🔊Listen to Dani below👇