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Download full textCarmen H. J. Lim; Tim Gill – Cambridge University Press & Assessment, 2023
This report is focused on the uptake of GCSE subjects in England in 2022. Uptake in a GCSE subject is defined as the number or percentage of students at the end of Key Stage 4 (KS4) taking the subject. This report was produced using publicly available data from the Department for Education's (DfE) "Find and compare schools in England"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Selective Admission, Colleges, Secondary Education
Tim Gill; Carmen H. J. Lim – Cambridge University Press & Assessment, 2023
This report is focused on the uptake of GCSE subjects in England in 2021. Uptake in a GCSE subject is defined as the number or percentage of students at the end of Key Stage 4 (KS4) taking the subject. This report was produced using publicly available data from the Department for Education's (DfE) "Find and compare schools in England"…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, Colleges, Private Colleges, Educational Attainment
Gortazar, Lucas; Hupkau, Claudia; Roldán, Antonio – Centre for Economic Performance, 2023
We provide evidence from a randomized controlled trial on the effectiveness of a novel, 100-percent online math tutoring program, targeted at secondary school students from highly disadvantaged neighborhoods. The intensive, eight-week-long program was delivered by qualified math teachers in groups of two students during after-school hours. The…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Computer Mediated Communication, Electronic Learning, At Risk Students
Direct linkBlackburn, Lucy Hunter; Kadar-Satat, Gitit; Riddell, Sheila; Weedon, Elisabet – Sutton Trust, 2016
Access to universities across the United Kingdom remains a challenge despite improvements in recent years. Those challenges are still more marked in Scotland than in the other nations, as this report shows. This report lays bare the extent of the challenge. Scotland has a different approach to higher education. It no longer charges tuition fees,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Higher Education, Economically Disadvantaged
Snowling, Margaret J.; Hulme, Charles; Bailey, Alison M.; Stothard, Susan E.; Lindsay, Geoff – Department for Education, 2011
It is well-established that language skills are amongst the best predictors of educational success. Consistent with this, findings from a population-based longitudinal study of parents and children in the UK indicate that language development at the age of two years predicts children's performance on entering primary school. Moreover, children who…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Research Projects, Educational Attainment, Identification
Kendall, Lesley; Rutt, Simon; Schagen, Ian – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2005
The Excellence in Cities (EiC) policy was launched in 1999 with the aim of improving the attainment of all pupils in disadvantaged urban areas. Further Phases were launched in 2000 and 2001, by when EiC covered about a third of the secondary schools in England and over 60 per cent of the minority ethnic pupils in England attended schools in EiC…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Schools, Academic Achievement, Urban Areas, Foreign Countries
