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Davies, 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
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Casey, Lorraine; Davies, Peter; Kalambouka, Afroditi; Nelson, Nick; Boyle, Bill – British Educational Research Journal, 2006
The authors investigate the effect of schooling on the aspirations of young people designated as having mild learning difficulties (MLD) or emotional and behavioural difficulties (EBD) in the first large-scale study of its kind in England. Data were collected from parents and their 15/16 year-old children in the final year of their compulsory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Aspiration, Outcomes of Education, Learning Problems