2014: - Blanden, J. & Macmillan, L. (2014) Education and Intergenerational Mobility: Help or Hindrance? CASEpaper … education: analysis using linked administrative data. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A), Vol. 176, Part 2, pp … for Fiscal Studies. - Whitty, G. & Anders, J. (2014) (How) did Labour narrow the achievement and participation gap? LLAKES …

extent of low achievement at school amongst this group is documented, and then the impact of such low achievement on labour …. However, few unqualified school leavers seem to be following this vocational route to qualification achievement. …

policy attention has been focused on each. This paper looks at the quality problem, exploring the relationships between …

correlates of low achievement and of school quality, and we consider the policy implications of our findings. … a fuller picture of Key Stage 4 low achievement and its correlates than available hitherto. We focus on three aspects …. Firstly, the role of students’ personal characteristics, especially gender, ethnicity and past achievement, in explaining the …

The arguments for refinancing the European Union’s (EU) higher education via higher tuition fees largely rest on … individuals’ contributions to higher education costs, through income-contingent and deferred instruments, does not significantly … countries’ unharmonised higher education institutional structures. …

education spending in thirty-five African countries over the period 1981-1996. The results show that democratization has indeed … having a significant impact in individual policy areas. …

attend tertiary education than their better-off peers. This correlation is often used to justify monetary transfers to … by parental ability, motivation, education, and other aspects of the young person’s experience which differ between …

When Labour came to power in 1997 it made commitments to reduce poverty and improve children’s health, education and … leave, Sure Start Children’s Centres, free early education for all three and four year olds, more affordable and higher … evidence from evaluations it is difficult to attribute changes in outcomes directly to changes in policy. The paper discusses …