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Download full textGeay, Charlotte; McNally, Sandra; Telhaj, Shqiponja – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2012
In recent years there has been an increase in the number of children going to school in England who do not speak English as a first language. We investigate whether this has an impact on the educational outcomes of native English speakers at the end of primary school. We show that the negative correlation observed in the raw data is mainly an…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Foreign Countries, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)
Hussain, Iftikhar; McNally, Sandra; Telhaj, Shqiponja – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2009
We examine the links between various measures of university quality and graduate earnings in the United Kingdom. We explore the implications of using different measures of quality and combining them into an aggregate measure. Our findings suggest a positive return to university quality with an average earnings differential of about 6 percent for a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Quality, College Graduates, Income
Gibbons, Stephen; Telhaj, Shqiponja – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2007
We consider the influence that mobile pupils have on the academic achievements of other pupils in English primary schools. We find that immobile pupils in year-groups (a la US "grades") that experience high pupil entry rates progress less well academically between ages 8 and 11 than pupils in low-mobility year groups (grades), even within the same…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Mobility, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students
Machin, Stephen; Telhaj, Shqiponja; Wilson, Joan – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2006
In this paper we examine links between pupil mobility and pupil and school characteristics at all levels of compulsory schooling in England. We derive measures of mobility from two academic years of the Pupil Level Annual School Census (PLASC) data, a unique national administrative pupil level longitudinal data source. Our findings suggest that…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Institutional Characteristics
Direct linkGibbons, Stephen; Telhaj, Shqiponja – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2006
The issue of social segregation in schools has seen a recent resurgence of interest--in the US, UK and internationally--as the debate rages on about whether policies that expand families' freedom to choose amongst schools encourage divergence or convergence in the types of pupil different schools admit. Most attention has been focussed on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, School Segregation, Academic Ability
Gibbons, Stephen; Telhaj, Shqiponja – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2006
It is a common belief that children will thrive if educated amongst better class and schoolmates. It is a belief that guides many parents in their choice of school, and has important implications for policy on school choice and organisation. Many studies have tried to measure this "peer-group" effect, but the enterprise is plagued by conceptual…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Foreign Countries, Peer Influence
