According to figures obtained through freedom of information requests, the DfE cancelled 20 research projects and curtailed a further 14 between May and December 2010.
Cancelled projects include a £400,000 evaluation of academies, the £1.3m Tellus survey and a £2.8m survey of disabled children’s services.
Scaled-back projects range from an evaluation of trust schools, a study into secondary school admissions and a systematic review of the conduct of serious case reviews.
Simon Tanner, owner of Research as Evidence Ltd, made the freedom of information requests. He warned that the government has cut the evaluation of academies without indicating whether alternative work is underway to assess the investment of public money into such forms of schooling.
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