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Direct linkGorard, Stephen; Siddiqui, Nadia – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2018
The UK government is planning to increase the number of pupils attending state-funded selective grammar schools, claiming that this will assist overall standards, reduce the poverty attainment gap and so aid social mobility. Using the full 2015 cohort of pupils in England, this article shows how the pupils attending grammar schools are stratified…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools, Elementary School Students, Social Stratification
Power, Sally; Sims, Stuart; Whitty, Geoff – Sutton Trust, 2013
The "Assisted Places Scheme" was introduced in 1980 by the Conservative Government to provide a "ladder of opportunity" for academically able students from poor homes. Over the next 17 years, more than 75,000 pupils received means-tested assistance from public funds to attend the most selective and prestigious private schools…
Descriptors: Poverty, Student Financial Aid, Foreign Countries, Politics of Education
Download full textGorard, Stephen; Taylor, Chris; Fitz, John – 2002
This study examined the extent to which introduction of educational markets changed the social composition of secondary schools in England and Wales. Using data from the introduction of the 1988 Education Reform Act onward, it measured changes in the tendency for students with different socioeconomic characteristics to cluster in particular…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Educational Change, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
