• Our research seeks out an objective view of standards of education in Britain. By doing so, we aim to offer an improved perspective on how best to deliver equitable and high standards of education for all.
• We aim in particular to generate evidence-based policy, with realisable strategies for implementation. This includes a commitment to giving parents greater control over how government invests in their child's education, as well as supporting independent teaching combined with a flexible curriculum.
• This complements the practical education projects we run and with which we have had involvement: Civitas Schools and the London Boxing Academy School (LBAS).

• Exam boards and school standards: What role do awarding bodies play in educational standards?
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• Teacher training: Identifying the most effective way to get good teachers in the classroom.
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• Practical learning: What makes for effective vocational training? An investigation into best - and worst - practice in England.
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Analysis: The English Bac
Analysis: The Budget's Implications for Education
Analysis: The Other Half - of students
Analysis: The unlikely losers of decentralisation
Analysis: Looking to the TV debates

Education: The Pre-election Briefing
March 2010
Today's figures and the parties' promises

• Should A-level exam resits be banned? Yes
  - Anastasia de Waal, Times, September 30 2010
• Resits undermine A-level standards
  - Anastasia de Waal, New Statesman, 19 August 2010
• There is no doubt that Sats are deeply pernicious, but it is not fair to identify testing as the problem
  - Anastasia de Waal, Times Educational Supplement, 3 September 2010
• The licence of academies
  - Tristram Hunt and Anastasia de Waal, Guardian 10 June 2010
• Is academy school success just a sham?
  - Anastasia de Waal, Guardian 14 December 2009
• Is academy school success just a sham?
  - Anastasia de Waal, Guardian 14 December 2009
• Turning the tables on education
  - Anastasia de Waal, Guardian 27 August 2009
• A gender gap at five - so what?
  - Anastasia de Waal, Guardian, 30 July 2009
• Stop Twittering, learn Latin
  - Anastasia de Waal, Guardian, 29 March 2009

Publication: Liberal Education and the National Curriculum
- David Conway, January 2010
Professor David Conway traces the history of proposed school curricula from the liberal reformers of the 1860s to modern times. All children, whatever their backgrounds, should be introduced to 'the best that has been thought and said'.

Publication: Inspecting the Inspectorate: Ofsted under scrutiny
- Anastasia de Waal (ed.), November 2008
Informed perspectives on Ofsted's school inspection regime: what is working and what is not?

Education in England: Policy vs. Impact
- Anastasia de Waal, July 2009
How is the government doing in education?

Media Info: Increase in Infant Classes Over 30
- Anastasia de Waal, Press Briefing, May 2009
The issues with the rise in infant class sizes.

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