Welcome to our news and blogs section. Here you’ll find the latest developments and insights from across our longitudinal studies.
Data from the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) Age 51 Sweep are now available to download from the UK Data Service.
It is only natural for parents to want to help their sons and daughters find a good, well-paid job. However, many people now accept that this human instinct can have some negative consequences and make it harder to create a more meritocratic society. Unpaid internships that often lead to lucrative, high-status jobs are a prime, […]
How can more young people be encouraged to consider careers in science, technology, engineering and maths?
Today the Institute of Education (IOE) will join UCL as a single Faculty School, to be known as the UCL Institute of Education. One advantage of the merger is that all five UK birth cohort studies will be housed together for the first time in history. The IOE’s Centre of Longitudinal Studies (CLS) currently manages […]
Today the Institute of Education (IOE) will join UCL as a single Faculty School, to be known as the UCL Institute of Education.
Do children born in the UK at the beginning of the new millennium have some reasons to be cheerful? Yes, it appears that they do.
More than half of the children born in the UK at the turn of the millennium experienced poverty at some point during their first 11 years, a new study shows.
Social background remains the most powerful predictor of 11-year-olds’ cognitive abilities, a new study confirms.
Nearly four in every ten children born at the turn of the century lived through at least one change in their parents’ relationship status in their first 11 years – up from just one in ten in 1969, a new study finds.
Nearly four in every ten children born at the turn of the century lived through at least one change in their parents’ relationship status in their first 11 years – up from just one in ten in 1969, a new study finds. The report published by the Institute of Education, London, sets out how home […]
One in five children born in the UK at the beginning of the new century was obese by the age of 11, a new study shows.
Grammar schools have been no more successful than comprehensives at helping to ensure their pupils gain a university degree or graduate from an elite higher education institution, new research suggests
Ten thousand fewer pupils are being bullied every day than 10 years ago, a major new study of secondary school pupils has revealed.
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