Background Participation in higher education has significant and long-lasting consequences
for people's socioeconomic trajectories. Maternal depression is linked to poorer educational …

The Oxford Dictionary of English defines authoritarianism as the enforcement or advocacy of
strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom, as well as a lack of concern …

Since the 1990s, UK government policy has sought to increase access to higher education,
with a plan to improve social mobility. However, enhancing the employability prospects for …

'Why study the arts at school?'This book offers a fresh perspective on this question. Informed
by rigorous research, the book argues that the arts help young people to develop key skills …

The purpose of this investigation was to identify original insights into the educational social
mobility conundrum in the UK via examination of the current body of empirical and existing …

Educational reforms aim to improve education quality and accessibility, creating positive
externalities like individual growth and societal benefits. Although the global educational …

This paper draws on an oral history project which focuses on former coalminers'
experiences of education and training. It presents the stories of five participants, all of whom …

This commentary argues that educational inequality is not one thing but an intricate and
complicated amalgam of many different factors. The dominant political view regarding …

Research within comics studies has done much to elevate the understanding of comics as
complex, multimodal, polysemic texts, however this has yet to significantly alter the view of …

1651–1695. University of Toronto Press. Barmes, D., Eames, N., Livingstone, Z., Musto, C., &
Youel, S.(2022). The power of big finance how to reclaim our democracy from the banking …