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View article: Reporting and measuring English school qualifications: a case study of General Certificate of Secondary Education results in survey and linked administrative data in the UK Millennium Cohort Study
Reporting and measuring English school qualifications: a case study of General Certificate of Secondary Education results in survey and linked administrative data in the UK Millennium Cohort Study Open
Data on educational qualifications is essential in many research domains. The UK Millennium Cohort Study collected self-reported General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) data in sweep 7 (cohort members aged 17). GCSE data from the…
View article: Parental social class and school examinations: a longitudinal investigation using linked administrative and survey data
Parental social class and school examinations: a longitudinal investigation using linked administrative and survey data Open
This study investigates the relationship between parental social class and young people’s school examinations in England. This study uses a specialist data resource from the UK Household Longitudinal Study (Understanding Society) and linke…
View article: Do you like school? Social class, gender, ethnicity and pupils' educational enjoyment
Do you like school? Social class, gender, ethnicity and pupils' educational enjoyment Open
This study investigates structural inequalities in educational enjoyment in a contemporary cohort of United Kingdom (UK) primary school children. Foundational studies in the sociology of education consistently indicate that the enjoyment o…
View article: Parental social class and GCSE attainment: Re-reading the role of ‘cultural capital’
Parental social class and GCSE attainment: Re-reading the role of ‘cultural capital’ Open
This paper examines the roles of parental social class and cultural capital in inequalities in English school qualifications. The analytical focus is the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE). Integral to Bourdieu’s theory of c…
View article: Ethnic inequalities in health in later life, 1993–2017: the persistence of health disadvantage over more than two decades
Ethnic inequalities in health in later life, 1993–2017: the persistence of health disadvantage over more than two decades Open
Ethnic inequalities in health and wellbeing across the early and mid-lifecourse have been well-documented in the United Kingdom. What is less known is the prevalence and persistence of ethnic inequalities in health in later life. There is …
View article: GCSE results: the hidden but enduring effects of parental social class
GCSE results: the hidden but enduring effects of parental social class Open
Sarah Stopforth, Vernon Gayle, and Ellen Boeren discuss the enduring nature of social class-based inequalities in the UK and demonstrate the magnitude of the gap between pupils from the most advantaged and those from the less advantaged so…
View article: Parental social class and school GCSE outcomes: two decades of evidence from UK household panel surveys
Parental social class and school GCSE outcomes: two decades of evidence from UK household panel surveys Open
This paper investigates social class inequalities in English school qualifications. The analytical focus is pupils’ outcomes in General Certificates of Secondary Education (GCSEs). The original aspect of this paper is the operationalisatio…
View article: Parental socio-economic background and children’s school-level GCSE attainment
Parental socio-economic background and children’s school-level GCSE attainment Open
The principal aim of this thesis is to better understand the contemporary relationship between parental socio-economic background and children’s General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) attainment. Previous empirical research has …