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Title: Economics of Education Research Centre


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Economics of Education Research Centre
  • PURPOSEto provide a high quality service to
    policy makers and policy implementors in
    educational organisations through activities
    which make available research-based knowledge

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Main stakeholders
  • policy makers in central government
  • government agencies and local government
  • educational managers (head teachers, principals,
    governors of schools and colleges)
  • teachers and lecturers, GTC
  • researchers and academics in this and related
    fields
  • education media.

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Key activities
  • evaluation and dissemination of existing research
    findings in a variety of ways
  • undertaking research
  • promoting cost-effectiveness thinking and
    practice within educational organisations

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The field of economics of education
  • Human capital theory and empirical evidence on
    private and social rates of return to education
    and its contribution to economic growth
  • Cost-effectiveness analysis and application to
    educational interventions and within educational
    institutions

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Main users
Human capital
Policy makers
Cost effectiveness
Policy makers and practitioners
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Current bias of research activity
  • (information on number of articles from
    literature search of UK journals of human
    capital/rates of return and cost-effectiveness
  • to be added)

7
Research Programme
  • Existing DfEE initiatives
  • Future initiatives
  • Cost-effectiveness practice

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Existing initiativesexamples
  • Cost-effectiveness study of a DfEE initiative
    (e.g. specialist schools)
  • Labour market for teachers
  • PRP cost-effectiveness study

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Future initiatives
  • Literature reviews on human capital
  • contribution of education to economic growth
  • rates of return to education

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  • Presentation at this point by John on labour
    market for teachers project and on literature
    review on contribution of education to economic
    growth.

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Future initiatives example
  • A randomised controlled experiment
  • additional resources in primary schools project

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Cost-effectiveness practice
  • Cost effectiveness for school improvement
    self-review
  • Cost effectiveness framework for Standards Fund
    review

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Educational input
  • Focus on cost-effectiveness studies of
    educational interventions and hence study of
    educational processes
  • Educational background of key staff and doctorate
    students
  • Emphasis on working with practitioners and
    education evaluators in systematising
    cost-effectiveness thinking
  • Employment of a range of methodologies

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Obtaining flexibility within programme
  • Opportunity cost of flexibility
  • Implementing longer term projects in phases
    timing of which can be adjusted
  • Existing outline programme has short term
    projects which finish within 12 -18 months
  • Moving resources into a larger commissioning
    budget

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Programme planningproject 1.A
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  • Involvement presentation by Linda and Steve at
    this point

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Choice of vision for Centre
  • Cost-effectiveness or human capital research?
  • Cost-effectiveness best serves needs of
    practitioners as well as policy makers
  • C-E bridges divide between education and
    economics
  • C-E in education in greater need of additional
    funding than human capital research
  • Evidence-informed practice and policy example of
    health economics
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