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Parsons, Samantha; Hallam, Sue – Oxford Review of Education, 2014
This paper investigates the relationship between stream placement and the academic progress made by children in England in Year 2 of primary school, drawing on data from the longitudinal Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). The MCS is a sample of 19,000 children born across the UK around the turn of the century and their families. Academic progress was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Elementary School Students, Cohort Analysis
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Sullivan, Alice; Parsons, Samantha; Wiggins, Richard; Heath, Anthony; Green, Francis – Oxford Review of Education, 2014
To what extent and why do social origins matter for access to higher education, including access to elite universities? What is the role of private and selective schooling? This paper uses the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) to analyse the trajectories of a generation currently in early middle age. We find that the influence of social origins,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Selective Admission, Educational Attainment