The higher education regulator for England has set challenging new widening access
targets requiring universities to rethink how merit is judged in admissions. Universities are …

Social science datasets usually have missing cases, and missing values. All such missing
data has the potential to bias future research findings. However, many research reports …

Pupil Premium funding has been provided to schools in England since 2011, to help
overcome socio-economic segregation between schools, and reduce the poverty attainment …

Education is an applied field for research. In the past 20 years or more, there has been
increasing pressure from stakeholders like funders and policy-makers for education …

This book arose from nearly 25 years of teaching social science research methods, and
writing methods resources. The book is based partly on the publicly funded research …

Around the world, governments, charities, and other bodies are concerned with improving
education, especially for the lowest-attaining and most disadvantaged students. Making …

Households with children eligible for Free School Meals are at risk of food insecurity. This
paper reports on a rapid‐response study that investigated the impact of the school food …

Pupil Premium funding has been provided to schools in England since 2011, to reduce
socio-economic segregation, and the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and …

Administrative data are increasingly being used to study inequalities in education. Yet a well-
known difficulty with such resources is the limited information they hold. A commonly used …

This paper examines the link between the clustering of long-term disadvantaged students
within schools, and the attainment gap at age 11 between these disadvantaged students …