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Direct linkDavies, Peter; Ercolani, Marco G. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2021
We examine relationships between motivations towards higher education choices, gender and beliefs about the financial consequences of these choices. We control for home background, school type and students' expectations of grades they will achieve at age 16. We use a unique individual-level UK data set from a random sample of schools with a…
Descriptors: Correlation, Student Motivation, Student Characteristics, Beliefs
Sinclair, S.; McKendrick, J. H.; Scott, G. – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2010
Recent UK government statements and education policies have emphasized the need to instil a "culture of aspiration" among young people in deprived communities to address social exclusion. Specific proposals include raising the school leaving age to 18 and extending compulsory employment training. These statements and measures express the…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Attainment, Adolescents
Stevenson, Jacqueline; Willott, John – Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education, 2007
Refugee young people are an educationally diverse group. However, unlike groups such as Gypsy/Roma and Travellers, in the UK they do not attract targeted educational funding. In addition, neither the UK integration or refugee educational strategies nor the Higher Education Funding Council for England's strategic plan refer to higher education as a…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Strategic Planning, Higher Education, Young Adults
