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Education in the UK, Chapter 7, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 117-45, references -- Dan A. Black and Jeffrey A …. -- North, D. (1990), Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press … Methods, Washington, DC: World Bank. -- Scott, M.F. (1998), A New View of Economic Growth, Oxford: Oxford University Press …
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"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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form of hybrid schools was introduced that combine general and vocational education: University Technical Colleges (UTCs … going on to study STEM at university. The paper concludes that there has been both promise and disappointment in what the …
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We examine the links between various measures of university quality and graduate earnings in the United Kingdom. We … suggest a positive return to university quality with an average earnings differential of about 6 percent for a one standard … deviation rise in university quality. However, the relationship between university quality and wages is highly non-linear, with …
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We examine the links between various measures of university quality and graduate earnings in the United Kingdom. We … suggest a positive return to university quality with an average earnings differential of about 6 percent for a one standard … deviation rise in university quality. However, the relationship between university quality and wages is highly non-linear, with …
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The share of women achieving tertiary education has increased rapidly over time and now exceeds that of men in most OECD countries. However, women are severely underrepresented in maths- intensive science fields, which are generally referred to as STEM (science, technology, engineering, and...
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