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Are England’s Academies More Inclusive or More ‘Exclusive’? The Impact of Institutional Change on the Pupil Profile of Schools

Wilson, Joan - Centre for the Economics of Education, LSE - 2011

-ability background of pupils. Administrative information in the National Pupil Database is combined with school-level data to assess how … the academic quality and composition of pupils entering year 7 of Academies and how their whole school composition has …In 2002 the former Labour government launched the Academies Programme of school improvement. This scheme has targeted …

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An Evaluation of “Special Educational Needs” Programmes in England

Keslair, Francois; Maurin, Eric; McNally, Sandra - Centre for the Economics of Education, LSE - 2011

The need for education to help every child rather than focus on average attainment has become a more central part of the policy agenda in the US and the UK. Remedial programmes are often difficult to evaluate because participation is usually based on pupil characteristics that are largely...

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Mental Health and Education Decisions

Cornaglia, Francesca; Crivellaro, Elena; McNally, Sandra - Centre for the Economics of Education, LSE - 2012

Mental health problems - and depression in particular - have been rising internationally. The link between poor mental health and poor educational outcomes is particularly interesting in the case of the UK which has a low international ranking both on measures of child wellbeing and the...

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Student Awareness of Costs and Benefits of Educational Decisions: Effects of an Information Campaign

McGuigan, Marty; McNally, Sandra; Wyness, Gill - Centre for the Economics of Education, LSE - 2012

University fees have recently trebled in England and there are fears that many young people may be put off from participating in further and higher education - especially those from low income backgrounds. This could exacerbate inequalities that are already very stark in the UK. In this paper,...

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The Evaluation of English Education Policies

Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra - Centre for the Economics of Education, LSE - 2011

Educational inequalities are evident even before children start school. Those connected to disadvantage widen out as …. We then review available evidence for England about the impact of school-level policies on achievement and their … potential for reducing the socio-economic gap. We discuss evaluation evidence under four main themes: school resources; market …

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Over-Education and the Skills of UK Graduates

Chevalier, Arnaud; Lindley, Joanne - Centre for the Economics of Education, LSE - 2007

During the early Nineties the proportion of UK graduates doubled over a very short period of time. This paper investigates the effect of the expansion on early labour market attainment, focusing on over-education. We define over-education by combining occupation codes and a self-reported measure...

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Educational Effects of Widening Access to the Academic Track: A Natural Experiment

Maurin, Eric; McNally, Sandra - Centre for the Economics of Education, LSE - 2007

It is difficult to know whether widening access to schools which provide a more academically oriented general education makes a difference to average educational achievement. We make use of reforms affecting admission to the 'high ability' track in Northern Ireland, but not England. The...

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Assessed by a Teacher Like Me: Race, Gender and Subjective Evaluations

Ouazad, Amine - Centre for the Economics of Education, LSE - 2008

The underrepresentation of minority teachers and male teachers remains an issue in US elementary education, and there is evidence that racial interactions partly shape student performance. However there is little work on discrimination within the classroom. Do teachers give better grades to...

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Are Schools Drifting Apart? Intake Stratification in English Secondary Schools

Gibbons, Steve; Telhaj, Shqiponja - Centre for the Economics of Education, LSE - 2006

on the population of pupils entering Secondary school in England from 1996 to 2002. Our study does highlight wide … has changed over these years in terms of the way pupils of different age-11 abilities are sorted into different Secondary …

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Access, Choice and Participation in Higher Education

Gibbons, Steve; Vignoles, Anna - Centre for the Economics of Education, LSE - 2009

includes both individual and school level information. Our findings are that geographical distance has little or no impact on …

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