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COVID-19 and Social Mobility Impact Brief #2: University Access & Student Finance. Research Brief
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Montacute, Rebecca; Holt-White, Erica – Sutton Trust, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic poses significant challenges for higher education across the UK. This year's cohort of university applicants now face months of uncertainty, as they try to make decisions on their future amid exam cancellations and a new system to determine grades, all without face-to-face support from their school. For students currently…
Descriptors: Disease Control, Distance Education, Online Courses, Access to Computers
Commitment to Environmental Sustainability in the UK Student Population
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Cotton, Debby R. E.; Alcock, Ian – Studies in Higher Education, 2013
Sustainability is an increasingly important issue in higher education, both in the UK and internationally. Although environmental sustainability is the most frequently identified of the three pillars of sustainability (social and economic sustainability being less widely understood), there has been little previous research which has quantitatively…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Sustainability, Cohort Analysis
An Unusually Effective School/University Programme: The Plymouth and Peninsula Model
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la Velle, Linda; Reynolds, David; Nichol, Jon – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2013
This article describes a novel UK school/university partnership, the "Plymouth Model" designed to encourage young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to aim for higher education (HE) study. The model incorporates the activity of university students, researchers and teachers working together to improve aspirations and outcomes for…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Partnerships in Education, Foreign Countries, Academic Aspiration
Students' Academic Self-Perception
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Chevalier, Arnaud; Gibbons, Steve; Thorpe, Andy; Snell, Martin; Hoskins, Sherria – Economics of Education Review, 2009
Participation rates in higher education differ persistently between some groups in society. Using two British datasets we investigate whether this gap is rooted in students' misperception of their own and other's ability, thereby increasing the expected costs to studying. Amongst high school pupils, we find that pupils with a more positive view of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Attendance, Self Concept, High School Students
Enhancing Pupils' Aspirations to University: The St Andrews Sutton Trust School Experience
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Lasselle, Laurence; Keir, Fraser; Smith, Ian – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2009
The Sutton Trust Summer School offers to S5/Year 12 pupils the opportunity to sample student life for a week at one of five selecting universities in the UK. Most of the participants on the Sutton Trust Summer School will be the first generation in their family to attend university and have come from schools which traditionally send low numbers to…
Descriptors: Summer Schools, Higher Education, Friendship, Educational Experience
Gender-Specific Peer Groups and Choice at 16
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Webber, Don J.; Walton, Fiona – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2006
The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of gender-specific peer groups on students' intentions and realisations to stay on into post-compulsory education at the age of 16. This is an important area for research as one of the UK government's aims is to achieve a 50% staying on rate in higher education at the age of 16. However, this…
Descriptors: Females, Peer Groups, Gender Differences, Males