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Siddiqui, Nadia; Gorard, Stephen – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2023
Robust indicators are important for identifying disadvantaged pupils in education, and for ensuring that they are rightly receiving relevant state-funded assistance. This paper compares the quality and completeness of data from England on student eligibility for free school meals (FSM) based on an administrative census, with more all-encompassing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Income, Outcomes of Education, Reliability
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Gorard, Stephen – Research in Education, 2023
This paper presents an analysis of the extent to which poor pupils in England are clustered in schools with others like them. It is based on a segregation index of pupils eligible for free school meals for every year for which official national data is available. The trend over time has been published before up to 2019, and this paper extends the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Boliver, Vikki; Gorard, Stephen; Siddiqui, Nadia – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2021
This paper reports on the findings of an ESRC funded project that contributes to the evidence base underpinning contextualised approaches to undergraduate admissions in England. We show that the bolder use of reduced entry requirements for disadvantaged learners is necessary if ambitious new widening access targets set by the Office for Students…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Higher Education, Undergraduate Students, College Admission