Government support for childcare has been expanding rapidly since the announcement in the Spring 2023 Budget. By September 2025, children aged two and younger from eligible working households will be eligible for 30 hours of entitlement funded childcare. However, work by London Economics for Save the Children estimated that the funding proposed by the government […]
The British Academy has published an interactive dashboard and accompanying briefings looking at the career paths of SHAPE graduates (i.e. those with a degree in Social Sciences, Humanities, and the Arts for People and the Economy) and their contribution to the UK economy. The analysis and reporting underpinning the publications were undertaken by London Economics […]
London Economics participated in a two-day conference (on 28th and 29th May 2025) organised by the Royal Society of Edinburgh to discuss the future of the funding of tertiary education in Scotland. As part of a session on what can be learned from elsewhere in the UK, we presented a birds-eye view and comparison of […]
London Economics were commissioned to assess the impact of N8 universities’ research, knowledge exchange activities and institutional expenditures on the UK economy, focusing on the 2021-22 academic year. The N8 Research Partnership consists of the eight most research-intensive universities in the North of England, including: Durham University, Lancaster University, Newcastle University, The University of Leeds, […]
London Economics were commissioned to assess the economic impact of the University of York’s research, knowledge exchange activities, institutional expenditures, and student expenditures on York and North Yorkshire and the UK, focusing on the 2023-24 academic year. The total economic impact on the UK economy as a whole associated with the University’s research, knowledge exchange […]
UK Met Office Hadley Centre generates £1.9 billion (2018-21) to the UK via its climate research and dissemination activities. LE’s evaluation of the HCCP for UK Government published: https://t.co/WZqo0Y3TbI
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A new era of consumer protection? Ensuring a robust understanding of customer behaviour ever more important with the introduction of the DMCC. Global Competition Review https://t.co/ZaKa4HfSbS
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RT @LE_Education: Looking only at fees, indexing tuition fees to inflation raises HEI income per cohort by £587m (from £12.45bn) with HMG p…
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RT @LE_Education: Mention of some of the @LE_Education analysis in here on the student loan repayment system. Universities are in a hole:…
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RT @LE_Education: Before everyone starts asking about increasing the HE tuition fee, and who pays for it (obvs. important!), understanding…
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RT @LE_Education: Very pleased to be presenting at an @AdvanceHE session today on HEI finances for student governors ….. It’s quite packed 😳
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We are pleased announce that our study, which estimates the value of the Met Office’s Public Weather Service to the UK public in 2024 to be between £1.10 billion and £1.28 billion, was published today. Read the full study here: https://t.co/R4aApvapu8
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