Interesting snippet in The Guardian on UCL research which shows that students from poorer backgrounds are much more likely that others to apply to universities and courses which require less than their 6th form achievement. This is 'under-applying' .This is reversed for better-off students, who have a similar tendency to over-apply. It doesn't seem to be simply down to poorer students applying more locally. Aspirations? Following friends?
Adam Rutherford is a more than decent science writer and BBC radio broadcaster. He has a book out on 6 Feb called; "How to argue with a racist". He's previewed it with a piece in The Observer and in this...
Will Brehm's Fresh Ed podcast is super resource. Bath staff have appeared on it a number of times (see last post) and the conversations are always refreshing and thought-provoking. Give it a listen!
Bath's Hugh Lauder is an international authority on the death of Human Capital Theory as a workable, or now even coherent, economic theory. In truth, it's a political and administrative convenience gone way beyond its explanatory power. Yet national and...