Education inequalities

C Farquharson, S McNally, I Tahir - Oxford Open Economics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Education is one of the most important predictors of people's life chances, shaping outcomes
like work and pay, health, and wealth. Explaining inequalities in educational outcomes, as …

Ethical dilemmas for dental students in Greece

M Antoniadou, E Masoura, M Devetziadou, C Rahiotis - Dentistry Journal, 2023 - mdpi.com
Professional dental ethics for students are based on promoting oral health for dental patients
and reinforcing an anthropocentric approach to communication and dental services. A total …

Is a PhD worth more than a Master's in the UK labour market? The role of specialisation and managerial position

G Marini, G Henseke - Studies in Higher Education, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This paper examines the potential earnings premium associated with a doctoral degree
(PhDs, ISCED9) over postgraduate degrees (PGs, or Masters, ISCED7) in the UK. We …

Identifying a research agenda for postgraduate taught education in the UK: lessons from a machine learning facilitated systematic scoping review

G Macleod, M Dozier, R Marvell… - Oxford Review of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This research aimed to describe and evaluate research on the Postgraduate Taught (PGT)
sector in the UK from January 2008 to October 2019. The focus on PGT allowed a detailed …

Higher education expansion and supply of teachers in China

F Dai, L Xu, Y Zhu - China Economic Review, 2022 - Elsevier
We examine the teacher labour market in China using the 2005 mini-Census, in the context
of the transformation of the world's largest education system. We first document a significant …

'Walking through fog': social inequalities and the journey to postgraduate taught study in England

R Marvell - Studies in Higher Education, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Although postgraduate expansion swiftly followed the massification of undergraduate
provision, with classed inequalities in access, postgraduate taught (PGT) education has …

Worth doing but not worth having? The influence of personal aspirations and career expectations on the value of a doctorate

K Guccione, B Bryan - Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this study is to understand the interaction between the component
domains of doctoral value to identify those which have a greater influence on overall …

Social Origin and Access to Top Occupations among the Highest Educated in the United Kingdom

J In, R Breen - Sociology of Education, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
US studies have found that stratified graduate education accounts for most of the relatively
strong intergenerational socioeconomic association among postgraduate degree holders …

It runs in the family? Using sibling similarities to uncover the hidden influence of family background in doctoral education and academic careers

J Helin, J Jokinen, K Koerselman, T Nokkala… - Higher Education, 2023 - Springer
Family background has been shown to be a strong determinant of educational attainment,
yet relatively little is known about the role that family background plays in PhD attainment or …

[PDF][PDF] London calling? Higher education, geographical mobility and early-career earnings

J Britton, L van der Erve… - … Report, https://ifs …, 2021 - assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
Economic opportunities vary across the country, with London and other cities offering
greater prospects for career progression (Gordon, Champion and Coombes, 2015; Social …