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creators_name: Martin, Paul
title: Examining the relationship between ethnicity, school attainment and higher education participation in England
ispublished: inpress
divisions: UCL
divisions: B16
divisions: B14
divisions: J82
divisions: KC6
keywords: Ethnicity; higher education;
widening participation;
social mobility
note: © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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abstract: Analyses of administrative data have revealed that during the 1990s
and early twenty-first century, young people in England from ethnic
minority backgrounds appeared to have a greater propensity to
participate in higher education than their white British counterparts. This paper presents the results of an analysis of linked administrative data for the entire cohort of English school pupils who took
their GCSE examinations in 2015 (n = 565,169) to further investigate
recent trends in HE participation by ethnicity. In line with previous
research, school pupils from almost all ethnic minority backgrounds
were found to be more likely to progress to degree-level study by
the age of 19 than those of white British ethnicity. Large gaps in the
likelihood of HE participation by ethnicity could not be explained
by other confounding variables such as prior attainment or socioeconomic background. However, gaps in HE participation by ethnicity were relatively narrow for those with higher levels of school
attainment but were very wide for those with below-average school
attainment. Unlike their white British counterparts, lower attaining
school pupils from ethnic minority backgrounds appear to have
a strong inclination towards degree-level study, as opposed to
possible alternative pathways.
date: 2025-02-11
date_type: published
publisher: Informa UK Limited
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2025.2464737
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 2360162
doi: 10.1080/02671522.2025.2464737
lyricists_name: Martin, Paul
lyricists_id: PMARA53
actors_name: Martin, Paul
actors_id: PMARA53
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Research Papers in Education
pagerange: 1-22
issn: 0267-1522
citation:        Martin, Paul;      (2025)    Examining the relationship between ethnicity, school attainment and higher education participation in England.                   Research Papers in Education     pp. 1-22.    10.1080/02671522.2025.2464737 <https://doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2025.2464737>.    (In press).    Green open access   
 
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