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Direct linkSee, Beng Huat; Torgerson, Carole; Gorard, Stephen; Ainsworth, Hannah; Low, Graham; Wright, Kath – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2011
The aim of the article is to identify those factors that drive the high participation in immediate post-16 and higher education of some minority ethnic groups in the UK. What could we learn from these examples to encourage higher aspirations more generally? The article reports a summary of a formal and systematic review of 1678 studies dated 1997…
Descriptors: Family Characteristics, Foreign Countries, Minority Groups, Literature Reviews
Peer reviewedGorard, Stephen – School Leadership & Management, 1997
A study of 794 families in South Wales clearly suggests that parents' and children's reported roles in selecting a new school are susceptible to variations over time. A three-step model predicts that simply dividing families into "alert" and "inert,""disconnected" and "privileged," or…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Family Influence, Foreign Countries, Models
Peer reviewedGorard, Stephen; Rees, Gareth; Fevre, Ralph – British Educational Research Journal, 1999
Explores the relationships between the patterns of participation in lifelong learning of parents and children within families. Based on a large-scale study of lifetime participation in industrial South Wales. Suggests that individual participation trajectories remain similar within families and illustrates the varied manifestations of family…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Family Characteristics, Family Influence, Family Role
Download full textGorard, Stephen; Fevre, Ralph; Rees, Gareth; Furlong, John; Renold, Emma – 1998
This study is part of a regional study in industrial South Wales on the determinants of participation and non-participation in post-compulsory education and training, with special reference to processes of change in the patterns of these determinants over time and to variations between geographical areas. The study combines contextual analysis of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Adult Learning, Continuing Education
Gorard, Stephen; Rees, Gareth; Renold, Emma; Fevre, Ralph – 1998
This study is part of a regional study in industrial South Wales on the determinants of participation and non-participation in post-compulsory education and training, with special reference to processes of change in the patterns of these determinants over time and to variations between geographical areas. The study combines contextual analysis of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Adult Learning, Continuing Education
Gorard, Stephen; Fevre, Ralph; Rees, Gareth; Furlong, John – 1997
This study is part of a regional study in industrial South Wales on the determinants of participation and non-participation in post-compulsory education and training, with special reference to processes of change in the patterns of these determinants over time and to variations between geographical areas. The study combines contextual analysis of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Adult Learning, Continuing Education
Gorard, Stephen; Rees, Gareth; Fevre, Ralph; Furlong, John – 1997
This study is part of a regional study in industrial South Wales on the determinants of participation and non-participation in post-compulsory education and training, with special reference to processes of change in the patterns of these determinants over time and to variations between geographical areas. The study combines contextual analysis of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Access to Education, Adult Learning
Gorard, Stephen; Rees, Gareth; Fevre, Ralph – 1998
This study is part of a regional study in industrial South Wales on the determinants of participation and non-participation in post-compulsory education and training, with special reference to processes of change in the patterns of these determinants over time and to variations between geographical areas. The study combines contextual analysis of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Adult Learning, Continuing Education
Gorard, Stephen; Selwyn, Neil – 2000
The use of information and communications technology (ICT) to facilitate easy access to lifelong learning for all is one of the central tenets of the United Kingdom (UK) government's drive to establish a more inclusive learning society. Advocates have highlighted the need to free learning from the traditional confines of educational institutions…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Developed Nations
Chambers, Paul; Gorard, Stephen; Fevre, Ralph; Rees, Gareth; Furlong, John – 1998
This study is part of a regional study in industrial South Wales on the determinants of participation and non-participation in post-compulsory education and training, with special reference to processes of change in the patterns of these determinants over time and to variations between geographical areas. The study combines analysis of secondary…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Access to Education, Adult Learning
