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…
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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
Why Britain’s private schools are such a social problem
shutterstock Francis Green. Private schools tend to be richly resourced and expensive, so those children lucky enough to attend them normally receive a good education, with academic advantages enhanced by a range of extra-curricular activities. But while this might be…
What kinds of activities will encourage more students from disadvantaged backgrounds to keep studying science?
Tamjid Mujtaba. I have worked on a range of projects as a mixed-methods researcher over the years although none as quite exciting as Chemistry for All, a longitudinal project funded in 2014 by the The Royal Society of Chemistry. Why…
Tagged with: participation in science, science education, social mobility
Posted in Research matters, Teaching, learning, curriculum & assessment, Uncategorized
Posted in Research matters, Teaching, learning, curriculum & assessment, Uncategorized
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