Sullivan, Alice;
Parsons, Samantha;
Green, Francis;
Wiggins, Richard D;
Ploubidis, George;
Huynh, Timmy;
(2018)
Educational attainment in the short and long term: was there an advantage to attending faith, private and selective schools for pupils in the 1980s?
Oxford Review of Education
, 44
(6)
pp. 806-822.
10.1080/03054985.2018.1481378.
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Abstract
This paper asks whether private, selective, and faith schools in England and Wales in the 1980s provided an academic advantage to their pupils, both in the short and longer term. Using longitudinal data from the 1970 British Cohort Study, we examine academic outcomes in compulsory schooling and further education, and the highest qualification gained by age 42. School sector differences are substantially attenuated by controlling for prior pupil characteristics. Nevertheless, a residual effect of private, grammar, and secondary modern schooling remains, both in the short and long term, controlling for both pupil and school characteristics. In the case of faith schools, however, the apparent advantage is restricted to the short term once pupil characteristics are controlled. A unique feature of our analysis is that we control for the individual’s faith of upbringing, which is important in reducing what could otherwise be seen as a distinctive Catholic school advantage.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Educational attainment in the short and long term: was there an advantage to attending faith, private and selective schools for pupils in the 1980s? |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/03054985.2018.1481378 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2018.1481378 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | Faith, Catholic, private, grammar, selective, school, attainment |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10049321 |
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