Interested in learning about the importance of university admissions in youth transitions and social mobility? 👩🎓📚
Join us in person for a research showcase with @adruk.bsky.social
🕕Tuesday 6th January, 10.30am-4pm
📍Department for Education, London
Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/using-ucas...
New plans will break the link between FSM and pupil premium. Seems like a positive step for making sure low income families that fall outside of the narrow FSM eligibility criteria are counted. #WideningParticipation teams will need to think about the change in school-based targeting approaches.
NEW REPORT: Modelling and reforming school choice
By Ellen Greaves, @estellecantillon.bsky.social, @mariagraziacavallo.bsky.social and me.
Blog economics.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/11/06/a...
Policy briefing
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#EconSky #EduSky
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ICYMI: Our recent blog features Professor @billybwong.bsky.social and Lydia Fletcher (@uniofreading.bsky.social) on evaluating an online transition course. Using data from 28k+ students, they found a modest but meaningful boost in first-year pass rates.
Read more 👉 taso.org.uk/news-blog/ca...
Are you a high-school or college student working part-time while studying in Manchester? Learn about your rights, share experiences & connect with support at this free interactive session
📍 Manchester Central Library
🗓️ Wed 29 Oct, 1:30–3:30pm
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#ESRCFestival
Illustrating the point: the 3rd sesh at #lab25 this morning 👇
Not that this isn’t a very important issue to dissect, but it shows where the discourse is focused right now.
In my doctoral research, it's rare to come across something focused on white working-class girls. The overall success story of girls in education is obscuring significant inequalities experienced by some. #Edusky #AcademicSky
These are just a few insights from the study. Read the full open-access paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The implications? As contextual admissions become standard across the sector, understanding their multi-faceted influence on the admissions pipeline is crucial for impactful #WideningParticipation 6/7
We theorise that contextual offers act as an uncertainty-reduction mechanism, making highly competitive courses feel like a 'safer bet' for high-attaining students from under-represented backgrounds 5/7
Key finding #2: While the policy successfully enabled enrolment for a small # of students who missed the standard offer, it appeared to have greater effects on encouraging students from under-represented backgrounds to firmly accept their offer of a place (1.45x) 4/7
Key finding #1: Students with contextual offers were 1.58x more likely to enrol than similar peers with standard offers. But the impact goes beyond just grades... 3/7
Using mixed-methods contribution analysis with data from
LSE, we investigated how contextual offer policies affect enrolment patterns & student decision-making in competitive university admissions 2/7
New paper alert! 🎉 #AcademicSky Our research on contextual offers as a widening access tool in #HigherEd is out now (open access): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Proud to share this work with co-author Jonathan Schulte examining their effectiveness at highly selective universities 🧵 1/7
Interesting stats: 68% of young people want to go to university. Just 8% of grads regret going to uni whereas 43% of non-grads aged 18-24 wish they'd gone to university #AcademicSky
What is the value of higher education?
Tuning into this livestream (5-6pm) with Lord Willets, Baroness Smith of Malvern & Professor Bobby Duffy #HigherEducation
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Yes! It feels like it reflects a pre-internet time where you’d be flipping through a physical journal. I’d love to see it binned.
Online CHERE event for the diary, 12th of May:
Why is UK HE in crisis, and (how) can we fix it?
Speakers include Kalpana Shankar (UCD), Susan Robertson (Cambridge), and @ronaldhartz.bsky.social (TU Ilmenau).
This is a public event; details below, do share etc
www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-...
I keep meaning to buy a print of the scene where they’re walking to the cafe in the dark; it must be the most beautiful illustration I’ve come across in a children’s book
I’ve never heard of this, what a great policy. I feel like a rarely see examples of initiatives structurally addressing gender pay gaps for women rather than e.g. a workshop on how to not have imposter syndrome.
hi Bluesky sociologists - twice a year I make So Fi Zine, an indie publication for sociological fiction, poetry and visual art.
The zine has had a big life since 2017 thanks mostly to twitter and I am hoping this place can now offer it a new reach.
Please share if this is your jam 🙏✨ sofizine.com
@edudetective.bsky.social 👋 could I be added to your handy education & inequalities research starter pack please?
@dralistruthers.bsky.social could I be added to your outreach & WP starter pack please?
Are there any sociology of education starter packs out there? #SociologySky #AcademicSky
TWO opportunities to contribute to special issues that I’d want to read cover to cover. Deadlines end Jan & end Feb. 2nd call esp. of interest to #HigherEd researchers & pracademics.
EXTENDED ABSTRACT DEADLINE - 20th January 2025.
🔊 Call for papers!
Join us for the @britsoci.bsky.social Presidential Event, in collaboration with the BSA Education Study Group.
⏳ Deadline: 30 January 2025
💬 Theme: The Future of the Sociology of Education
📅 Date: 6 June 2025
📍 Place: BSA Meeting Room, London
🔗 britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
Are you neurodivergent?
Are you REALLY interested in stuff?
Would you like a friendly chat these things on season 2 of the
Ruling Passions podcast?
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