Encouraging that the House of Lords Social Mobility Policy Committee recognizes that the longstanding freeze of £25k as the household income at which students no longer get maximum student loan is becoming an impediment to social mobility and needs to rise
publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...

Very excited to announce that from January I will be leading a new research project funded by @nuffieldfoundation.org, using LEO data to investigate the consequences of student employment, whether positive or negative.

My new blog for @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social provides an overview:
bit.ly/4n7KO1f

HE participation among free school meals eligible students has also dipped again for the second year running. However the gap between FSM and non-FSM has narrowed slightly, due to a larger dip in non-FSM participation.

The DfE have been publishing these stats for 15+ years. Every year so far the proportion of state school pupils progressing to HE by age 19 has gone up. This year (those who took GCSEs in 2020 and A levels in 2022) is the first year that HE participation has gone down, from 46.9% to 45.8%...

Today the DfE have published their latest stats on widening participation in HE. Here are a few quick thoughts...
explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statist...

I find that once you account for attainment differences, around half of the gap in HE participation between London and elsewhere disappears. Once you then control for demographic differences, many regions then catch up with London...

I undertook some analysis of data from the National Pupil Database, linked with the Higher Education Statistics Agency, which I've published in my recent Data Insight publication for ADR UK...

Young people growing up in London are much more likely to go to university than those in every other region of England. Why is this? 🧵

Today, I’ve published a new paper on ethnicity, school attainment and access to HE in England 🧵[1/8]
doi.org/10.1080/0267...

Today, via ADR UK, I've published a new "Data Explained" document where I share some insights of carrying out research using linked National Pupil Database (NPD) and HESA higher education data. These datasets are also available as part of the "LEO" dataset... 🧵

www.adruk.org/fileadmin/up...

Yesterday, the OECD Education at a Glance report was published, with this year’s edition focussing on equity in education. Here are a few highlights from the UK country note… 🧵
www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

For more, see my recent briefing note published by @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social (end of 🧵)
econpapers.repec.org/paper/uclcep...

This is unsurprising, we know that HE participation is strongly predicted by attainment at age 16 and that the Key Stage 4 disadvantage attainment gap has been rising over several years. It is currently the highest it has been since 2011/12
explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statist...

Yesterday, the Office for Students published another year of data analysis concerning access to HE for disadvantaged young people in England. It's not good news... 🧵

Looking forward to presenting my research today on Access to HE in England at the European Conference on Educational Research in Cyprus

The stage is set ready for this year's ECER in Cyprus, looking forward to speaking tomorrow ☀️🇨🇾