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- 22nd Sep 2014
Adult educators comes together to celebrate launch of the Behavioural Research Centre for Adult Skills and Knowledge (ASK)
The Behavioural Research Centre for Adult Skills and Knowledge, or ASK for short, was officially opened on 17 September. The research centre is focused on using behavioural science to help tackle adult numeracy and literacy. Adults who lack literacy and numeracy skills tend to be less productive at work, earn…
- Blog
- 3rd Jun 2014
Creating Oppositions in Academia and Policy
Every now and again an article appears in the UK press that we think needs a bit of clarification. One such article appeared in the Observer over the weekend: link.Creating oppositions between academics and organisations is a nice journalistic device – and of course, a well-established pattern in academic journals…
- Blog
- 8th Apr 2014
BIT and BIS launch The Behavioural Insights Research Centre for English and Maths
We are delighted to announce that the Behavioural Insights Team and the Department for Business Innovation and Skills are setting up a new research centre. The Centre will develop and test interventions informed by behavioural science that can help improve adult literacy and numeracy and be scaled up by UK…
- Academic publication
- 16th Oct 2013
Aspiration & Inspiration – A pilot study of mentoring in schools
We report the results of a pilot study to test the impact of a short talk on pupils' stated intentions to attend university.