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Direct linkStoten, David William – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2016
Around 8-10% of the English undergraduate population study in further education colleges. Colleges in the post-compulsory sector have offered a variety of higher education (HE) programmes for decades, some as articulated "top-up" courses, others as full degrees or vocational programmes such as the Higher National Diploma. Reports from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, Undergraduate Study, Vocational Education
Dunne, Máiréad; King, Russell; Ahrens, Jill – Studies in Higher Education, 2014
This paper reports on research into the ways that schools engage in university application processes. Questionnaire and interview data were collected from 1400 Year 13 students from 18 independent and state schools in England and 15 in-depth interviews were carried out with school teacher higher education (HE) advisors. The analysis compares…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Applicants, Private Schools, State Schools
Davies, Peter; Qiu, Tian; Davies, Neil M. – Journal of Education Policy, 2014
This study examines ways in which economic and sociological explanations of higher education (HE) choices may intersect through student's use of information. We find substantial positive associations between intention to go to university in England and each of: (i) parents' education; (ii) cultural capital; and (iii) expectations of the size of…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Human Capital, Higher Education, College Choice
Wilkins, Stephen; Shams, Farshid; Huisman, Jeroen – Educational Studies, 2013
Recent changes in the English tuition fee policies have spurred a debate on the impacts on student choices for higher education. Expectations range from a sharp decrease in participation in higher education to relatively little change in student demand. We surveyed 1549 year 12 sixth-form students from four institutions spread geographically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Fees, Tuition, College Choice
Download full textRidley, Kate; White, Kerensa; Styles, Ben; Morrison, Jo – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2005
This research follows up a study conducted in 1998 by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) to investigate teachers' and students' views on the factors affecting students' choices of whether or not to apply to Oxford and Cambridge universities. It identifies what has changed since 1998 and areas in which the universities could…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Educational Research, College Choice, College Applicants
