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Direct linkSullivan, Alice; Parsons, Samantha; Wiggins, Richard; Heath, Anthony; Green, Francis – Oxford Review of Education, 2014
To what extent and why do social origins matter for access to higher education, including access to elite universities? What is the role of private and selective schooling? This paper uses the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) to analyse the trajectories of a generation currently in early middle age. We find that the influence of social origins,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Selective Admission, Educational Attainment
Sullivan, Alice; Heath, Anthony; Rothon, Catherine – Oxford Review of Education, 2011
The Labour government elected in 1997, which lost power in 2010, was the longest serving Labour administration Britain has ever had. This period saw an enormous expansion of further and higher education, and an increase in the proportion of students achieving school-level qualifications. But have inequalities diminished as a result? We examine the…
Descriptors: Social Class, Educational Attainment, Foreign Countries, Equal Education
