Education

Technical Education in the UK: insights from the latest learner experiences.

Latest polling explores attitudes towards student loan repayments in England.

As the government prepares reforms to the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) system, early support, identification, and training for educators top the public’s priority list.

Over half (56%) of Britons support banning mobile phones in schools altogether, up 8 ppts since September 2024. Seven in ten (72%) would support a law that requires social companies to use age-verification to ban children under the age of 16 from accessing their platforms.

The Social Mobility Commission commissioned a survey of over 5,000 UK adults to research public attitudes and evolving aspirations.

Given the choice, people would prefer to have been born in 1975 rather than 2025 by a margin of almost two to one.

In a break from the global trend, Britons now see the effects of social media and technology as the number one challenge facing young people (34%), ahead of mental health.

While Labour leads as the party seen as most likely to achieve its missions to improve the NHS and break down barriers to opportunity, Reform UK leads on “taking back our streets”, and the Greens on clean energy.

Almost half of Scottish adults (48%) would support the idea of charging university tuition fees based on the ability to pay, with funding focused on those who need it the most.