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 …

Here, we offer a synthesis of recent evidence and new developments in relation to three
broad aspects of Black and minority ethnic (BAME) students' participation in UK higher …

Going to university is a very good investment for most students. Over their working lives, men
will be£ 130,000 better off on average by going to university after taxes, student loan …

This paper provides the first quantitative analysis on 'first in family'(FiF) university graduates
in the UK. Using a nationally representative dataset that covers a recent cohort in England …

Education has a lot to offer for the individual. It provides him or her with the opportunity to
develop one's talents. These talents–which we will characterize as “competencies”–are …

The extent to which learners have scope and opportunity to direct and influence their own
approach to learning activities, what may be termed 'learner agency', has been shown to be …

The educational solutions put forward in the 2019 Conservative Government's Levelling Up
programme privileged higher-level skills training delivered through further education …

Higher education systems exhibit varying degrees of heterogeneity in approaches to
undergraduate degree classification–specifically for this Point of Departure: the wide variety …

We investigate differences in the returns to undergraduate degrees by socio-economic
background and ethnicity using the Department for Education's Longitudinal Education …

We examine whether the decline of routine occupations contributed to rising wage inequality
between young and prime‐age non‐college educated women in the UK over 2001‐2019 …