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Will you get a job after university? Seven things we know about graduate employment
What are UK graduates up to three years after they finish they degrees?
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What are your chances of getting into Oxbridge?
White students are twice as likely to get into Oxbridge as black applicants. And what about the school you went to? FactCheck looks at which types of applicant are most successful at the UK’s most famous universities.
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How much do charities actually spend on good causes?
Charity spending has long been the subject of media scrutiny. How much do organisations spend on their charitable activities? FactCheck investigates.
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Why are men from poor families twice as likely to be single in their 40s?
Men from the poorest 20% of families are twice as likely to be single in their 40s as their richer counterparts. What’s going on?
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Stop and search outcomes still vary by ethnicity
Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Cressida Dick, has defended the force’s stop and search tactics. There is no dispute that black Londoners are stopped and searched proportionally more often than white people, but Dick claimed this was not due to unfairness. FactCheck looked into the details.
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Three ways millennials are still feeling the credit crunch
It’s been ten years since the financial crisis began. FactCheck looks at three ways millennials are feeling the effects of the crash.
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Are Britain’s prisons a ‘disaster waiting to happen’?
Last month saw a spate of prison riots, with violence at jails in Hertfordshire and Worcestershire. Some commentators claimed the unrest was “a disaster waiting to happen”. But what’s really going on inside Briton’s prisons? And are prison officers facing an uphill battle to stay in control?
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The number of people on zero hours contracts has quadrupled since records began
Unemployment is at its lowest level since 1975, the number of “zero hours contracts” is at a record-high at over 900,000. FactCheck looks at the figures.
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More single parents hit by the benefits cap, but the High Court says it’s unlawful.
The government’s benefit cap policy was ruled to be unlawful in June. But new figures show more single parents are subject to the cap than before. FactCheck investigates.
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Jeremy Hunt’s misleading mental health claims
The government has announced a £1.3bn plan to expand the mental health workforce with a “challenging” recruitment drive. The aim is to help the NHS care for an additional one million patients by 2020-21, according to the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt. We put his claims to the FactCheck test.
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How students have been misled and lied to for 20 years
It’s been 20 years since Tony Blair first introduced tuition fees. Since then, students have been lied to, misled and betrayed by politicians and political parties. FactCheck uncovers the long history of broken promises and political U-turns.
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Here are 10 Tory U-turns since the election was called
FactCheck takes a look at 10 key Tory U-turns since the election was called.
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No, Corbyn did not ‘pledge to abolish student debt’
Jeremy Corbyn has been accused of U-turning on a pledge to scrap student debt. It follows a comment made during the election campaign, saying he would “deal with it”. But the context is important.
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Labour corrected themselves on childcare costs. But even the correction is wrong.
Labour say childcare costs are up 50 per cent since 2010. But they’re not comparing like-for-like data.
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Jeremy Corbyn is wrong: you don’t have to be a member of the EU to be part of the single market
Jeremy Corbyn said on Sunday that a Labour government would leave the single market because remaining in it is ‘dependent on membership of the EU’. Commentators have been quick to point out that there are four countries in the single market that are not members of the EU. But is there more going on here…