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Nov 6, 2023 · Young people from lower-income households were less likely to plan to still be studying in two years’ time. Between October 2021 and March 2022, when the young people were aged 16 to 17 years...
- Unequal Success
- Household Income
- Inequalities Into Adulthood
Children from disadvantaged households tend to do worse at school. This may not be a surprising fact, but our study illustrates the magnitude of this disadvantage gap. The graph below shows that children who are eligible for free school meals (which corresponds to roughly the 15% poorest pupils) in England do significantly worse at every stage of s...
While eligibility for free school meals is one way of analysing socio-economic inequalities, it doesn’t capture the full distribution of household income. Another way is to group young people according to their family income. The graph below shows young people grouped by decile. This means that young people are ordered based on their family’s incom...
The gaps between poor and rich children during the school years translate into huge differences in their qualifications as adults. This graph shows educational attainment ten years after GCSEs (at the age of 26) for a group of students who took their GCSE exams in 2006. The four bars show the distribution of qualifications at age 26 separately for ...
- Imran Tahir
Jul 2, 2020 · More than a quarter of a billion children and young people have been “left behind” and are totally excluded from education systems around the world, and the pandemic has made the problem worse, UNESCO’s 2020 Global Education Monitoring Report shows.
Nov 17, 2022 · This statistical release has data on education including: pupils and teachers. attendance during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. information on further education and higher education ...
Jan 10, 2023 · Of the total number, 10.9 million schoolchildren and full-time students were in England (20.4% of the usual resident population aged five years and over) and 588,000 were in Wales (19.9%).
Nov 26, 2020 · The percentage of females who were NEET decreased by 1.2 percentage points to 9.9% over the last year. There has also been a difference in the magnitude of the decrease in the NEET when looking at...
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By age 19, all major ethnic groups are more likely than white pupils to have earned A levels or equivalent qualifications. And by age 26, white British pupils are the least likely to hold a degree and the most likely to have stopped their education at GCSE or below.
