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Sullivan, 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