In recent years, the United Kingdom has become a more and more divided society with
inequality between the regions as marked as it has ever been. In a landmark analysis of the …

Mixed community policies are frequently justified by a belief in neighbourhood effects. As
such they are essentially faith-based since there is scant evidence that increasing socio …

Although small, New Zealand is a useful comparative case for studying changing school
admissions policies and their impact in urban areas. This article reviews New Zealand's …

The impact of teacher pay on school productivity is a central concern for governments
worldwide, yet evidence is mixed. In this paper we exploit a feature of teacher labour …

Socio-spatial segregation has been recognised as an important factor affecting school
segregation and educational attainment in urban schools. As urban populations grow and …

East London has undergone dramatic changes over the last 30 years, primarily as a result of
London's large scale de-industrialisation and the rise in its financial sector. Large parts of …

There is a longstanding literature on the unequal geographical distribution of welfare. In this
paper we argue that increasingly geography is becoming the basis for rationing access to …

This study uses data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) to
gain a better understanding of how academic performance and resources vary across rural …

GIS and the Social Sciences offers a uniquely social science approach on the theory and
application of GIS with a range of modern examples. It explores how human geography can …

In this paper we examine the role which distance, in a variety of forms, can play in the
reproduction, intensification or reduction of educational inequality in different types of school …