Education

This month’s edition of Ipsos Update features the latest research and thinking from Ipsos around the world on gender, shopper behaviour, entertainment in India and young people.

In our latest annual survey on behalf of the Sutton Trust, 27% of 11-16 year olds say they have ever received private tuition outside of school, up from 18% when the question was first asked in 2005.

Results have been published from Ipsos’s latest survey on behalf of NHS Digital about the prevalence of smoking, drinking and drug use among young people in England. The survey also covers their attitudes towards these behaviours, and for the first time in 2018, young people’s wellbeing.

Our latest survey on behalf of the Sutton Trust, published on A-level results day, shows that young people think that knowing the right people and being confident are more important for getting on in life than going to university.

Ipsos carried out the fifth wave of the Department for Education’s Pupils and their Parents/Carers omnibus survey in July/August 2018, which asked young people about their access to sanitary products.

New research for National Numeracy Day reveals nation’s blind spot around the value of numeracy skills could be holding back millions

The Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM Report) is published by UNESCO with a mandate of “monitoring and reporting on Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) and on education in the other SDGs”. Ipsos found that the Report is successfully achieving this mandate, but the impacts expected by donors are just not possible for a report to achieve.

This report presents the findings from a study conducted by Ipsos on behalf of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).

The latest findings from a survey of pupils and their parents/carers on: extra-curricular activities, learning about government and politics, bullying, mental health, changes to GCSEs, subject and qualifications choice, and careers and aspirations.