Gill Wyness and Lindsey Macmillan. Higher education has long been thought of as a tool to equalise opportunities, with governments around the world spending billions per year on encouraging disadvantaged students into university through financial aid and other widening participation…
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When students’ attainment is mismatched with their university course, life chances are affected
Tagged with: access to higher education, social mobility
Posted in Further higher and lifelong education, young people
Posted in Further higher and lifelong education, young people
How much does private schooling raise your pay, and does it make you give more to the community?
Francis Green. Private schools find themselves in the news lately, more than they usually are. Boris Johnson became the fifth Old Etonian prime minister since the war, and immediately appointed a cabinet in which nearly two-thirds were privately educated, re-affirming…
Tagged with: private education, public service, social mobility
Posted in Schools, Social sciences and social policy
Posted in Schools, Social sciences and social policy
Inequalities in education and society: the home, the school and the power of reading
This blog is based on Professor Alice Sullivan’s inaugural professorial lecture, presented at the UCL Institute of Education on 18 June 2019 Much of my work concerns the way that advantage and disadvantage are passed down from one generation to…
How well-off and healthy were my parents when I was little? Am I a hard-working high flier, or an advantaged one?
Gabriella Melis and Ingrid Schoon. Our research looked at how inequalities amongst families in the 1970s in England have been passed on onto their offspring when they were adults themselves. We call the parent’s generation G1, and the offspring generation,…
Tagged with: cohort studies, longitudinal studies, social mobility
Posted in Research matters, Social sciences and social policy
Posted in Research matters, Social sciences and social policy
Fair access: are comprehensive universities the answer?
IOE Events. For our latest debate we moved further down the education pipeline, to higher education. We wanted to look at why the pace of progress in widening access across our universities has felt so slow. We were inspired by…
Tagged with: social mobility, universities, university access
Posted in Further higher and lifelong education, IOE debates, young people
Posted in Further higher and lifelong education, IOE debates, young people
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