John Micklewright | Institute for Fiscal Studies

Family background and university success

Event 5 December 2016 at 13:30 28 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JS

The Nuffield Foundation is hosting a conference in partnership with IFS to discuss the latest evidence relating to higher education and social mobility.

Raising GCSE attainment crucial to get more young people from disadvantaged backgrounds into university, but work to promote social mobility cannot end when they arrive on campus

Comment

Reducing socio-economic gaps in education outcomes has been at the heart of government strategy to raise social mobility for many years. Achieving higher educational qualifications enables individuals to earn more, on average, so if those from poorer backgrounds are less likely to attain these qualifications than those from richer backgrounds, then the socio-economic circumstances of parents and children will continue to be inextricably linked.

5 December 2016

Family background and university success

Presentation

This presentation was given by Anna Vignoles, Lorraine Dearden, Claire Crawford, and John Micklewright at the event "Family background and university success" on 5 December 2016.

5 December 2016

Family background and university success: differences in Higher Education access and outcomes in England

Book

This book examines how family background determines university success, analyses who goes to university, who does best at university once they are there, and who succeeds in the labour market following graduation, and looks at the impact of the 2006 and 2012 tuition fee increases.

17 November 2016

Teenagers' expectations of applying to university: how do they change?

Report

We show how young people's expectations about application to university change during the teenage years, drawing on the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (LSYPE).

1 October 2013

Higher education funding and access: Introduction to the issues

Presentation

Paper given at the ESRC festival of Social Science 2012 event on Higher Education Funding, Access and Outcomes

9 November 2012

The Effectiveness of English Secondary Schools for Pupils of Different Ability Levels

Journal article

'League table' information on school effectiveness in England generally relies either on a comparison of the average outcomes of pupils by school(for example, mean exam scores) or on estimates of the average value added by each school.

15 August 2011

Earning and learning: educational policy and the growth of part-time work by full-time pupils

Journal article

The 'traditional' view, in both educational and labour-market policy, of the transition from education to employment centres on the school-leaving decision - in other words, on a particular point in time when the individual concerned decides to leave full-time education and enter the labour market.

1 February 1996

Intra-household transfers and the part-time work of children

Working Paper

1 January 1996

Unemployment and early school leaving

Journal article

1 January 1990

Demographic influences on public spending

Journal article

The Government's public spending plans, outlined in the 1988 Autumn Statement and the 1989 Public Expenditure White Paper, project that total Government expenditure will grow by 1 3/4 percent per annum in real terms over the three years from 1988/89 to 1991/92.

1 May 1989

Has Britain an early school-leaving problem?

Journal article

1 February 1989

Unemployment and early school leaving

Book

1 June 1988

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Family background and university success

Raising GCSE attainment crucial to get more young people from disadvantaged backgrounds into university, but work to promote social mobility cannot end when they arrive on campus

Family background and university success

Family background and university success: differences in Higher Education access and outcomes in England

Teenagers' expectations of applying to university: how do they change?

Higher education funding and access: Introduction to the issues

The Effectiveness of English Secondary Schools for Pupils of Different Ability Levels

Earning and learning: educational policy and the growth of part-time work by full-time pupils

Intra-household transfers and the part-time work of children

Unemployment and early school leaving

Demographic influences on public spending

Has Britain an early school-leaving problem?

Unemployment and early school leaving

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