She did recently manage to secure one. I think the 6am shift is crucial.
This seems a bit late in the day to be posting that. The action all seems to be about 6am if my wife’s experience is anything to go by(!)
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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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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
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 🧵
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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.
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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 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).
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...
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...
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The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has a long-established tradition of sociological research, and we wish to recruit a sociologist with excellent
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.
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Jake Anders
UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities
UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities
UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities
Jake Anders
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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.
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Join us for the Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities' 5th Annual Lecture, delivered by Professor Brian A. Jacob
