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Strathdee, Rob; Engler, Ralf – British Educational Research Journal, 2012
There is disagreement in the literature regarding the influence of social and cultural factors on the propensity for young people to undertake higher education. This study draws upon a national data set of over 45,000 young people to assesses their propensity to progress to bachelor level study, while controlling for their ethnic backgrounds,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Achievement, Young Adults, Foreign Countries
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Nairn, Karen; Higgins, Jane; Ormond, Adreanne – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2007
Dominant conceptions of the world infuse educational experiences for young people in implicit rather than explicit ways--through becoming, as Stuart Hall argues, "the horizon of the taken-for-granted". In this article we explore these horizons as experienced by New Zealand's neo-liberal generation, currently "in transition"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Adolescents, Age Differences