The influence of the school in the decision to participate in learning post‐16
By N. Foskett, Martin Dyke, F. Maringe. 2008
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The primary aim of this study, funded by the Department for Education and Skills, was to identify the nature and influence of school‐based factors in the choices of young people about their post‐16 education, training and career pathways. The study also contributes to the wider understanding of ‘choice’, and identifies implications for the development of careers education and guidance and decision‐making awareness amongst pupils and students in schools. It also further enhances the modelling of pupil decision making in education and training markets, and in labour markets. The research is based on a series of qualitative interviews in 24 schools across nine local education authorities. Focus groups were undertaken with young people in years 10, 11 and 12. Interviews were also conducted with head teachers, heads of year and heads of careers. A postal survey of parents was also undertaken. Four key school‐based factors were found to have a very strong influence in the choices and decisions of young people a...
Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science
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- University and course choice: Implications for positioning, recruitment and marketing (2006, background): “Although numbers are small, there is evidence that students are showing interest in combinations of subjects that hitherto were seen as distinctly different by combining subjects such as media studies and arts or science subjects ( Foskett et al. , 2004”