Publications
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Recent Publications
Is Britain Ready For Carbon Capture and Storage?
Tara Singh and Thomas SweetmanIs Britain Ready For Carbon Capture and Storage? introduces an innovative technology with worldwide potential for helping to solve our climate change problems.
Slipping Through The Net: tackling incompetence in the teaching profession
Sam Freedman and Briar LipsonThis report looks at the government’s failure to remove poorly‐performing teachers from schools and propose a series of improvements to the capability review process.
Success and the City: Learning from International Urban Policies
Dr Oliver Marc HartwichThis report looks at and evaluates the different approaches to urban regeneration practised in the UK and abroad and proposes policy recommendations for the effective regeneration of deprived urban areas.
Quelling the Pensions Storm: Lessons from the past
Dr Oliver Marc HartwichQuelling the Pensions Storm argues that the Government should learn from the past and make additional reforms to every part of the system. They should make it easier for employers to provide good pensions, confront the risks in personal accounts and introduce a new Single-Tier State Pension. The goal is better pensions for all.
Helping Schools Succeed: a framework for English education
Sam FreedmanHelping Schools Succeed: a framework for English education shows that successful education systems require a coherent structure – something conspicuously lacking in this country.
Helping Schools Succeed: Lessons from Abroad
Sam FreedmanHelping Schools Succeed: lessons from abroad investigates five systems – New Zealand, Canada (Ontario and Alberta), Hong Kong and Sweden – which generally perform better than England on counts of excellence and equity.
Back From Life Support: Remaking Representative and Responsible Government in Britain
Policy ExchangeCumulative social and political changes have undermined the concept of active citizenship on which the concepts of representative and responsible government have been based. Back From Life Support, written by Frank Field MP, suggests ways of bringing those key concepts back.
Footing the Bill: Reforming the Police Service
Jonathan McClory and Gavin LockhartFooting the Bill investigates the challenges police face in containing costs and balancing protective services, counter-terrorism and neighbourhood policing.
Diminished Returns: How Raising the Leaving Age to 18 Will Harm Young People and the Economy
Policy ExchangeLeading academic and former government advisor Professor Alison Wolf reports how the British Government have ludicrously over-estimated the benefits of raising the education and training leaving age to 18 and massively under-estimated the costs.
Towards better transport: Funding new infrastructure with future road pricing revenue
Dr Oliver Marc Hartwich and Briar LipsonAccording to Towards Better Transport traffic congestion is now endemic, affecting not just large cities but also the core motorway network and small towns. It currently costs the UK economy in the region of £20bn per year.
