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Barr, Nicholas A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

Universities, parents and poorer students will allbenefit under the Government’s plans for top-upfees.[...]

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Barr, Nicholas A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

How best to widen university access - by abolishing fees, as the Tories suggest, or byenhancing student loans, as the government plans?[...]

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University funding: discuss

Barr, Nicholas A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

Universities need cash, students need support and there are too few working-classentrants. After a two-year extension, Charles Clarke and the class of '73 are all set todeliver answers to these problems. Nicholas Barr offers a guide to how you, theexaminers, should mark their responses.[...]

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Measuring Well-Being and Exclusion in Europe’sRegions

Stewart, Kitty - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002

dimensions of well-being: material wellbeing,health, education and participation in two spheres – productive and social …

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United Kingdom Education 1997-2001

Glennerster, Howard - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001

claimed that hisGovernment would make education a priority. The first part of thepaper reviews the scale of education spending … in relation to theeconomy at large and within the education budget. The second part ofthe paper looks at the productivity … education, theintroduction of income related loans to cover maintenance and up frontfees. The paper concludes some serious …

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The Roles of Schooling and Educational Qualificationsin the Emergence of Adult Social Exclusion

Hobcraft, John - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

In order to assess the roles of schooling and educational qualifications inthe emergence of adult social exclusion, a series of detailed regressionmodels were explored separately for men and women for each of a widerange of indicators of adult disadvantage at both ages 23 and 33,...

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Schools, Education and Social Exclusion

Sparkes, Jo - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999

A review of research evidence suggests that low levels of educationalattainment are crucial in generating and sustaining social exclusion. Testscores at school are the most effective predictor of many adult outcomes.School attendance and soft skills are also important. Reviewing the...

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Childhood Poverty, Early Motherhood and AdultSocial Exclusion

Hobcraft, John; Kiernan, Kathleen - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999

Childhood poverty and early parenthood are both high on the politicalagenda. The key new issue addressed in this research is the relativeimportance of childhood poverty and of early motherhood as correlatesof outcomes later in life. How far are the ‘effects’ of early motherhood onlater...

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Welfare in Transition: Trends in Poverty andWell-being in Central Asia

Falkingham, Jane - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999

capability-based indicators –reflecting the health and education of the population and theextent to which the social sectors are …

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The Legacy of Parental Divorce:Social, economic and demographic experiences inadulthood

Kiernan, Kathleen - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1997

This study addresses three questions. Firstly, to what extent does divorceduring childhood have long-term consequences for the educationalattainment, economic situation, partnership formation and dissolution, andparenthood behaviour in adulthood? We show that in most of thesedomains children who...

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