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Štastný, Vít – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2023
Previous research on the implications of early-tracking education systems has not specifically focused on how studying in academic and non-academic tracks shapes the features and characteristics of shadow education (private tutoring) that students are involved in. The study compares the scale and features of private tutoring and the underlying…
Descriptors: Track System (Education), Foreign Countries, Tutoring, Academic Education
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Simonová, Natalie; Soukup, Petr – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2015
The main objective of this paper is to show to what extent and why students with the same academic aptitude but different social backgrounds have different odds of entering university. For our analysis, we separated primary and secondary factors of social origin in the formation of educational inequalities. The results show that the primary and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Aspiration, Social Differences, Cultural Capital