🚨🚨 4 weeks to go until the 2026 CEPEO #annyleccy! 🚨🚨
Prof. Jacob is going to tell us what happened when schools banned phones in the US -- just as a widespread ban (probably) comes into force in the UK.
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A new Economics of Education Research Centre (EERC) — run by CEPEO, @cep-lse.bsky.social and @theifs.bsky.social — has been awarded a ~£3m DfE contract to build the evidence base on economic and social returns to education and skills, from early years to post-16.
www.ucl.ac.uk/consultants/...
📢 Open positions!
I’m recruiting 2 postdocs + 3 PhD positions at C³S, @goetheuni.bsky.social in #ClimateJustice, environmental inequality, #Demography & #ComputationalSocialScience 🌍📊💻
3–4 years + strong support for training🎒
Deadline: 23 June 2026
More: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen...
Good data is essential for policy. Today it’s been a year since we had a permanent National Statistician. No news on what is happening with the current recruitment which began Oct 2025.
This is an under the bonnet issue that points to state failure 🧵
uksa.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/news/stateme...
I have a new working paper out today, looking at the impact of educational use of ChatGPT/AI on student test scores. Importantly, this is overall student-led use (incl for cheating!), not specialized AI tutoring tools. To my surprise, I found... no effect at all! arxiv.org/abs/2605.08812
📢WE'RE HIRING!
1 pre-doc and 1 post-doc position, both until 31 March 2028 initially.
We're a super friendly multi-disciplinary team, though these positions have a strong economics focus.
Closing date 20th May. Please share widely!
Pre-doc: tinyurl.com/3t75je4a
Post-doc: tinyurl.com/ycyrzaxp
A contract worth almost £3 million has been awarded by the Department for Education (DfE) to UCL Consultants Ltd, to establish a research centre for education economics.
Interesting research job for a quant sociologist at the ESRI in Dublin. 5-year contract with possibility of permanency. €93k. candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities
Today the UK Statistics Authority has announced the resignation of Sir Ian Diamond as the UK’s National Statistician.
Since joining the organisation more than five and a half years ago, Sir Ian has l...
uksa.statisticsauthority.gov.uk
In educational settings, AI can be used as a learning aid, but can also be used to avoid schoolwork, thereby passing classes while learning little. Many existing studies on the impact of AI on educati...
UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
Do school phone bans actually work? Join us for CEPEO's 5th Annual Lecture with Prof Brian A. Jacob (Michigan / NBER) presenting new US evidence.
🗓 Thurs 9 July 2026, 18:00
📍 Central Hall Westminster
Secure your spot today 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cepeo-annu...
UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities
The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has a long-established tradition of sociological research, and we wish to recruit a sociologist with excellent
candidate.hr-manager.net
Nick Huntington-Klein
Hetan Shah
Join us for the Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities' 5th Annual Lecture, delivered by Professor Brian A. Jacob
