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This paper studies whether pupil performance gains in autonomous schools in England can be attributed to the strategic exclusion of poorly performing pupils. In England there were two phases of academy school introduction, the first in the 2000s being a school improvement programme for poorly...
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This paper studies whether pupil performance gains in autonomous schools in England can be attributed to the strategic exclusion of poorly performing pupils. In England there were two phases of academy school introduction, the first in the 2000s being a school improvement programme for poorly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011845801
investments in children and the channels through which negative labour market shocks experienced by parents might affect children … intergenerational impact: Children whose fathers reported an earnings drop to zero are significantly less likely to have received … additional paid learning resources compared to similar children whose fathers did not experience a drop in earnings. Potentially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390573
investments in children and the channels through which negative labour market shocks experienced by parents might affect children … intergenerational impact: Children whose fathers reported an earnings drop to zero are significantly less likely to have received … additional paid learning resources compared to similar children whose fathers did not experience a drop in earnings. Potentially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252365
“Right to Buy” (RTB) was a large-scale UK housing policy whereby incumbent tenants in public housing could buy their properties at heavily subsidised prices. The policy increased the national homeownership rate by over 10 percentage points between 1980 and the late 1990s. A key feature of...
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"Right to Buy" (RTB) was a large-scale UK housing policy whereby incumbent tenants in public housing could buy their properties at heavily subsidised prices. The policy increased the national homeownership rate by over 10 percentage points between 1980 and the late 1990s. A key feature of RTB is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015190154
"Right to Buy" (RTB) was a large-scale UK housing policy whereby incumbent tenants in public housing could buy their properties at heavily subsidised prices. The policy increased the national homeownership rate by over 10 percentage points between 1980 and the late 1990s. A key feature of RTB is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015418066
Delivery of vocational education in schools is a controversial issue around the world and attempts to improve it have been tried for decades. A substantive innovation in vocational education provision came about in 2010 in England when a new form of hybrid schools was introduced that combine...
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We study the origins of what has become one of the most radical and encompassing programmes of school reform seen in the recent past amongst advanced countries - the introduction of academy schools to English secondary education. Academies are state schools that are allowed to run in an...
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Some countries, notably those which have long had a weak history of vocational education like the UK and the US, have recently seen a rapid expansion of hybrid schools which provide both general and vocational education. England introduced 'University Technical Colleges' (UTCs) in 2010 for...
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