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John Jerrim – Research Papers in Education, 2024
Administrative data are increasingly being used to study inequalities in education. Yet a well-known difficulty with such resources is the limited information they hold. A commonly used proxy for children coming from a low-income background is their eligibility for free school meals, yet this is likely to be of little use in measuring academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Low Income Students, Lunch Programs, Parent Background
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Hope, Julia; Quinlan, Kathleen M. – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
This paper presents the experiences of mature students at a satellite campus of an English higher education institution. Twenty students over age 25 who fit various widening participation criteria were interviewed at four points during their first two years of bachelor's level study at a higher education (HE) centre in an area underserved by HE.…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Undergraduate Students, White Students, Working Class