Sam Freedman
Senior Fellow
Sam's recent work
The NHS productivity puzzle
The NHS crisis will only be solved with capital investment, increasing management capacity and staff retention – not just more doctors and nurses.
What do Keir Starmer’s five missions reveal about how Labour would govern?
A team of IfG experts assess whether Starmer’s "five bold missions" stack up
All work
How bad does the NHS crisis need to get?
Sam Freedman takes a closer look at the NHS crisis.
The NHS productivity puzzle
The NHS crisis will only be solved with capital investment, increasing management capacity and staff retention – not just more doctors and nurses.
What do Keir Starmer’s five missions reveal about how Labour would govern?
A team of IfG experts assess whether Starmer’s "five bold missions" stack up
The exam question
The education system in England should move to a model of incremental improvement rather than periods of stasis followed by highly disruptive change.
The underwhelming schools white paper is a missed opportunity
The white paper lacks vision, is full of technocratic tweaks, and has failed to take on the post-covid education recovery mission
The Gove reforms a decade on
How to build a coherent all-academy system.
New approach needed to avoid Covid data disputes and modelling misunderstanding
The reaction to SAGE modelling has again showed up flaws in how science has been used in the pandemic.
Estelle Morris
Baroness Morris talks about her six years in DfE, including her perspective as a former teacher and the shift to a targets-orientated culture.
Rishi Sunak’s budget does not meet the post-Covid education challenge
Sam Freedman warns that the pandemic's impact on children is not being properly addressed
Covid Tests: Schools and exams in 2022 and beyond
With exams returning in 2022, the Department for Education and Ofqual face difficult decisions about grading, fairness and restoring confidence in the