COVID-19 has resulted in a global public health crisis. Measures adopted by governments
across the world to reduce transmission have resulted in the closure of educational …

The UK government has expressed a desire to increase social mobility, with policies to help
achieve this aim focused on reducing inequalities in educational attainment. This paper …

Although children of immigrant origin in many European countries are observed to choose
higher levels of education than native-origin peers at similar levels of academic …

Abstract English students from less privileged backgrounds and state, rather than private,
schools remain significantly under-represented at high-status universities. There has been …

This article assesses the chances of entering the top 5% of earners for a British cohort
currently in their 40s. We assess the difference made by a university degree from an elite …

Despite the expansion of the UK higher education (HE) sector, young people from
disadvantaged backgrounds remain less likely than their advantaged counterparts to apply …

This paper considers whether subject choice at 14–16 influences post-16 transitions, taking
into account prior academic attainment and school characteristics, and if so, whether this …

This study examines how access to the academic curriculum creates patterns of inequality in
Australian schools. Examining students' access to the academic curriculum gives an …

This prospective study adopted Vygotsky's concept of perezhivanie to examine students'
lived experiences in learning mathematics and how they were related to subject choice …

The paper investigates socio-economic gaps in the match between student quality and
upper-secondary qualification quality using detailed individual-level linked administrative …