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Latest Links: Sociology of Education
January-December 2024
The Sociology links for 2024 are organised under the following headings: General; Social Class and Education; Gender and Education; Ethnicity and Education; Education Policy; Education Theory.
General
Click here for my teaching notes on The Sociology of Education
Click here for Recent Trends in Educational Achievement: Social Class, Gender, and Ethnicity.
Click here or Panorama on Immigration [Link to Education and Globalisation]
Click here for Revision Activities from The Sociology Guy
Social Class and Education
Click here for middle class responses to pandemic.
Click here for Cabinet membership and private education.
Click here for Class, ethnicity, and Higher Education [Detailed]
Click here for Schools and Foodbanks
Gender and Education
Click here for item on toxic masculinity.
Click here and here for subject choice and single sex schools
Click here for a defence of Private Education for Girls
Click here for single sex girls’ schools.
Click here for gender and subject choice.
Ethnicity and Education
Click here for Ethnicity and Key Stage 5 subject choice.
Click here and Click here for Diversity and Inclusion in Stem.
Click here for Class, ethnicity and Higher Education [Detailed]
Education Policy
Click here and Here for IFS Research on the Sure Start Programme
Click here for BBC coverage and here and here for Guardian coverage of the IFS Sure Start research
Click here for fft educationdatalab newsletter.
Click here for Prevent.
Click here and here and here and here and here and here and here for Finland.
Click here and here and here and here for PISA results.
Click here for HE student finance.
Click here and here for item on HE finance .
Click here for international students in UK Higher Education.
Click here for recruitment agents for international students.
Click here for Higher Education and Foreign students.
Click here for foreign students.
Click here for Ofqual analysis of GCSE And GCE Advanced Level Results by School Type,
Click here for restrictions on student numbers.
Click here for cost of living crisis.
Click here for Higher Education in the UK
Click here for international students in UK Higher Education
Click here for NFER item on School funding.
Click here for latest EEF resources on the Pupil Premium
Click here for useful item on T levels.
Click here for Guardian assessment of multi-academy trusts.
London Challenge
Click here and here and here and here and here and here and here for the London Challenge
Raac
School Building issue
Click here for Ros Atkins item.
Click here for IFS coverage.
Click here for Guardian Raac page,
Click here and here and here.
Click here for BBC Raac coverage.
January 2023- December 2023
General
Click here [summary] for Education Inequalities [Class, gender, ethnicity, region….
Click here for response to GCE A Level results by Professor Lee Elliot Major
Click here for analysis of A Level results by Toby Helm [ with link to OFQUAL graphics]
Social Class and Education
Click here for good class, ethnicity, and gender article.
Click here for recent class, ethnicity, and gender article.
Click here for article by Mary Curnock Cook on recent select committee report on white working class pupils [2020]
Gender and Education
Click here for Girls, Private schools and A Level physics
Click here for the possible need for more male teachers. [ITV News]
Ethnicity and Education
Click here for Inclusive Britain: government response to Sewell Report
Click here for Critical Race Theory: Confronting, Challenging and Rethinking White Privilege [Professor Kalwant Bhopal]
Click here for detailed article on Ethnicity and educational achievement.
Click here for very useful paper on Kashmiris and HE
Click here for a recent article by Ian Cushing in The Conversation on ethnicity and language.
Click here for a recent article by Ian Cushing and Julia Snell in The Conversation on ethnicity and language and here for their research paper
Click here for FSM and ethnicity which shows that very few Chinese and Indian pupils are eligible for FSM based on official data.
Click here for audio podcast: Derron Wallace on The Culture Trap
Click here for Sure Start and ethnicity failure
Click here for item from David Gillborn 2001
Click here for lecture on Parekh Report
Click here and here and here for outline of Race Relations legislation
Click here for definition of Institutional Racism
Click here for excellent article on race relations in the Blair era
Click here for Covid and ethnicity
Click here and here for Confucius institutes
Click here and here for immigration
Click here for recent Ipsos Mori poll on attitudes to immigration
Education Policy
Click here for education spending trends
Click here for Eton and Free Schools
Click here and here and here for new SEND schools
Click here for Guadian item on Free Schools [February 2021]
Click here for item on Free Schools [from SchoolDash June 2023]
Click here for university costs
Click here and here for scrapping of Schools Bill
Click here for National Tutoring Programme.
Click here and here and here for latest Pirls results [education and globalisation]
Click here for BBC discussion of OFSTED [Laura Kuenssberg].
Click here for the Guardian’s Ofsted page.
Click here for headteachers’ criticisms of Ofsted inspections.
Click here for the death of Headteacher Ruth Perry.
Click here for changes to OFSTED inspections regime and here for Guardian Ofsted page
Click here for Parliamentary brief on Ofsted .and here and here and here and here
Click here for Guardian Academies page
Click here for Guardian article on Ofsted ratings of council-maintained schools and academies [August 2023]
Click here for fft educationdatalab article on Ofsted ratings of council-maintained schools and academies [August 2023]
Click here for recent OFSTED data on performance of academies
Click here and here and here for Reviews of Factories for Learning by Christy Kulz
Click here for Grammar Schools
Click here for Grammar Schools, Comprehensive schools and social mobility
Click here for Tax, private schools and state school spending [IFS July 2023
Click here for item on private school finance
Click here for LSE Event on Chums by Simon Kuper [Private Schools]
Click here for the Private Education Policy Forum website
Click here for Mathematics for 18 year olds.
Click here for Mathematics for 18 year olds.
Click here for Mathematics for 18 year olds {The Briefing Room podcast].
Click here and here [full report]and here and here and here for 2023 information on T Levels
Click here for Guardian on tuition fees.
Click here for Keir Starmer and tuition fees.
Click here for the News Agents on Student Loans.
Click here for national tutoring programme
Click here and here and here and here and here for new Government regulations of universities[2023] and here [2020]
Click here for T levels
Education Theory
Click here and here and here and here for a review and some podcasts of Henry Giroux
January 2022- December 2022
Click here for school admissions.
Click here for lecture by Professor Diane Reay on Poverty and Education
Click here for interview with Diane Reay [2018]
Click here for Education in Inequality: The Deaton Review which has links to all the following papers
Click here for IFS seminar presentation on Educational Inequalities and the Deaton Report
Click here for IFS article on Private Schools and Inequality for the Deaton Report [F Green]
Click here for IFS article on Education Inequalities for the Deaton Report [Christine Farquharson, Sandra McNally, Imran Tahir]
Click here for IFS article on Education Inequalities for the Deaton Report [Christine Farquharson, Sandra McNally, Imran Tahir]
Click here for IFS article on Measuring and understanding contemporary English educational inequalities for the Deaton Report [ Diane Reay]
Click here for Inequality in post 16 Education for the Deaton Report [S. Field]
Click here for The stubborn persistence of educational inequality for the Deaton Report [Richard Breen]
Click here for Conversation article on the Deaton Report and Education
Click here for Science Capital {Professor Mike Savage]
Click here and here and here and here and here for new forms of cultural capital/science capital
Click here for item on private schools and examination results.
Click here for a report on Private Schools’ international expansion [from Private Education Policy Forum]
Click here for detailed article socioeconomic status and primary school performance.
Click here for Social Class and access to higher education [Louise Archer]
Education, Setting/Tracking and Streaming
January 2022- December 2022
Click here for tracking [ lecture by Becky Francis 2019]
Click here for attainment grouping and educational inequality [ Becky Francis and colleagues 2020]
Click here for tracking and self-fulfilling prophecy [ Becky Francis and colleagues 2020]
Click here for the symbolic violence of setting [ Becky Francis and colleagues 2018]
Click here for maths setting [ Becky Francis and colleagues 2019]
Click here for Mixed attainment grouping [ Becky Francis and colleagues 2018]
Click here for Attainment grouping as self-fulfilling prophecy [ Becky Francis and colleagues 2017]
Gender and Education
January 2022- December 2022
Click here for a Guardian article by Laura Bates emphasising the value of feminist ideas for boys [add to section of notes on Feminisation of education]
Click here for addition to gender and educational achievement [resister boys etc]
Click here for Richard Reeves on Gender
Click here for Does the gender of the teacher matter?
Click here for Gender, achievement, and subject choice in English education.
Click here for Girls and Physics
Ethnicity and Education
January 2022-December 2022
Click here for Is Political Blackness gone for good?
Click here for DfE publication on Ethnicity and attainment.
Click here for A Short History of “Race” in British Schools: a 75 year time line.
Click here for Aks or Ask Linguistic prejudice.
Click here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here for the English test scandal
Click here for Chinese on Campus [BBC Radio 4]
Click here for teacher bias and black pupils’ attainment.
Click here for social justice, exclusion, and white privilege in universities [lecture by Professor Kalwant Bhopal 2018[
Click here for White under-achievement and here for an interactive committee item.
Education Policy
January 2022-December 2022
Click here for postponement of 4 T levels.
Click here for very useful BBC item on Grammar Schools [February 2023]
Click here for a critical thread on Nick Gibb
Click here for education bill scrapped.
Click here for uncertain future of BTECs.
Click here for pause in Government plans to abolish technical qualifications.
Click here for recent article on apprenticeships.
Click here for globalisation and higher education.
Click here for Ofsted and Holland Park
Click here for detailed item on Private Education
Click here for FFT Educationdatalab Key Stage One results.
Click here for PISA tests.
Click here for PISA tests.
Click here for nice item on globalisation {Add to globalisation page]
Click here for Erasmus and Turing schemes [Add to globalisation page]
Click here for mix of video resources on globalisation and neoliberalism,
Click here for article on Pearson from 2012
Click here for Faith Schools and Academies.
Click here for continued expansion of HE
Click here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here for recent BBC items on Higher Education
Click here for School Suspensions and Exclusions
Click here for problems with Special Educational Needs provision.
Click here for Trojan Horse affair.
Click here for item on Trojan Horse affair.
Click here the Pupil Premium
Click here for reports on education from House of Commons Library [continuously updated]
Click here for item on citizenship.
Education Theory
January 2022-December 2022
Click here and here and here and here for education and postmodernism
Click here and here for Marxism and postmodernism.
Click here for Henry Giroux article on Resistance.
Click here for Marxism, education, and globalisation.
Click here for IoE debates on Education.
Social Class and Education
June 2021- December 2021
Click here for an item on poor housing
Click here for Tutor2U revision videos on the Sociology of Education
Click here and here for articles on setting and streaming
Click here for detailed article on Basil Bernstein
Click here for Class, gender and ethnic differences in subjects taken at age 14
Click here and here for information on OFSTED
Click here for Sutton Trust Report on Access the early education
Click here for Sky TV coverage of GCE Advanced Level results 2021
Click here and especially here for UCAS HE applications data 2021
Click here for BBC item on private and state schools
Click here and here and here Guardian coverage of GCE A Level results 2021
Click here for full JCQ GCE Advanced Level data 2021
Click here for Sutton Trust Comment on GCE Advanced Level results 2021
Click here and here for Sam Freedman’s views on education policy
Click here for Against the Odds [ Social Mobility Commission Report
Click here for article on Private Education and access to Oxbridge
Click here for a recent [2019] article on private education
Click here for Equality of access and outcomes in Higher Education in England
Click here for knife crime. What does this tell us about inner city life?
Click here to download the 2022 JRF UK Poverty Report which has detailed information on Child Poverty
Click here and here and here for useful articles on Higher Education
Click here for Garth Stahl article on Habitus and Social Class
Click here for a link to all of Craig Gelling’s Tutor2u education podcasts
For a Louise Archer pdf document on Poverty of aspiration Click Here and here for science education
Click here for useful teaching notes from Turton School
Click here for very detailed analysis of GCSE and GCE Advanced Level results 2021
Click here for list of PPTXs on Education from Napier Sociology
Click here for Education and Economy book
Gender and Education
June-December 2021
Click here for summary of Carol Fuller research: Sociology, gender and educational ambitions: girls and their aspirations [2009]
Click here for Ofqual Analytics: Interactive visualisations of results trends in GCSE, A Level and Vocational and technical qualifications
Click here for gender differences in examination results at GCE Advanced Level
Click here for Gender Differences in Examination results at GCSE Level
Click here for JCQ GCSE and A Level data for 2021. The link to Other Results Information is very useful e. g. on relative subject popularity and Gender differences in subject choice.
Click here for Guardian coverage of GCSE data for 2021
Click here for Guardian coverage of A Level data for 2021
Click here for BBC coverage of GCSE data for 2021
Click here and here for BBC coverage and of A Level data for 2021
Click here for ffteducationdatalab coverage of GCSE and A Level results trends to 2021
Click here for ffteducationdatalab coverage of Gender differences in A level subject entry 2017=2021
Ethnicity and Education
June 2021-December 2021
Click here and here and here for latest KS 4 data
Click here for Widening Participation in Higher Education [October 2021]
Click here for article on The Bell Curve
Click here for Ethnic, socio-economic and sex inequalities in educational achievement at age 16 [Steve Strand 2021]
For Ethnic Inequalities under New Labour [from 2005] Click here to Download
Education Policy
June 2021-December 2021
Click here for IFS item on education spending
Click here for Panorama and Coca Cola for Cola-isation
Click here for Academies and Lies [from 2014]
Click here for some useful information on T Levels from Karl Thompson’s Revise Sociology site
Click here for slowing down of BTEC cull
January 2021- June 2021
Click here for detailed article on ability grouping in primary schools
Click here for article University’s not for me…I’m A Nike Person tutor2u summary
Click here for recent article on stigmatisation of working class parents
Click here for Ph. D thesis by Mary Bourne: Social=Class Inequality in Educational Attainment and Participation in England [2015]
Click here for detailed article on Marxism and Education by Mike Cole [2019]
Click here for educational achievement and social class statistics
Click here for an article on Functional and Conflict Perspectives on Education
Click here and here for BBC items on poor white teens
Click here for review by Ross Goldstone of Posh Boys by Robert Verkaik
Click here for Schooling in Capitalist America Revisited [S Bowles and H. Gintis 2002]
Click here for a recent article on Talcott Parsons
Click here and here for David Gillborn presentations
Click here of SMC item on Course selection and here for UCA|S report on subject choice and here for BBC coverage
Click here for item on Poverty and A Level students
Click here for Inequalities in education and society [ Professor Alice Sullivan]
Click here for lecture on the Birmingham Trojan Horse Affair by Professor John Holmwood
Click here for item on private schools
Click here for DFE data on GCSE results 2020
Click here for update on GCSE results 2020
September 2020- December 2020
Click here for Conversation article on Free School meals
Click here for latest DFE data on Widening Participation in HE 2019/19 [published July 2020] and click here for a Guardian article on this DFE Report
Click here for a very useful article on Cultural Capital by David Buckingham
Click here for detailed article on Bernstein and Labov
Click here for new item on the white working class and education
Click here for recent article by Diane Reay and here for Diane Reay’s views on external and internal factors
Click here for recent Class-Education research using NS SEC
Click here for report on “Gifted and Talented pupils” from House of Commons Library [December 2020]
Click here for catch up tuition
Ethnicity and Education
January 2021- June 2021
Click here for TES coverage and here and here for Guardian coverage for BBC coverage of recent Education Select Committee Report
Click here for the Select Committee Report: The Forgotten: how White working class pupils have been let down…
Click here for latest DFE data on Widening Participation in HE 2019/19 [published July 2020] and click here for a Guardian article on this DFE Report
Click here for Race, Racism and Education
Click here for Subnormal: A British Scandal [BBC documentary]
Click here for item on London schools
Click here for ONS item on Child Poverty and educational outcomes by ethnicity
Click here for item on Black History
Click here for David Gillborn podcast on Critical Race Theory
September 2020- December 2020
Click here for Professor Kalwant Bhopal lecture: Social justice, exclusion and white privilege in universities
Click here for Being Black at Cambridge University
Click here for ethnicity and Curriculum
Click here for detail on Afro=Caribbean GCSE results from education data lab
Click here for education data lab report; How pupil characteristics interact to influence education outcomes
Click here for Guardian article on school exclusions of Black working class students
Click here for an article on racism inside schools
Click here for a detailed article on Chinese students by Professor Becky Francis and colleagues
Gender and Education
January -June 2021
Click here for BBC item on Gender Gap in Education
Click here and here for Guardian coverage of sexual harassment in schools
Education Policy
January 2021- June 2021
Click here and here and here for private education
Click here for House of Commons publication on reform of GCSE, AS and A Level courses [from 2017]
Click here for House of Commons Publication on The National Curriculum
Click here for Free Schools
Click here for The Guardian’s Academies page and here for The Great Academy Schools Scandal by Sonia Sodha
Click here for The Guardian Apprenticeships page
Click here for BBC coverage of arrangements for 2021 GCSE, GCE Advanced Level and BTEC assessments for 2021
Click here for BBC item on Education and parental choice [from 2019]
Click here for Sutton trust item on Schools Admission Policies
Click here for the Birmingham Trojan Horse Affair
September 2020- December 2020
Click here for detailed paper on Conservative Education policy 2015-2020
Click here for an Education Policy podcast which covers education policies since 1944 in some detail. The podcast lasts approximately. two hours
Click here for Parliamentary brief on student loans
Click here for post-GCSE education trends [BBC]
Click here for Sutton Trust Report: School Places: A Fair Choice
Click here for Geography and Social Mobility from Social mobility Commission and video presentation here
Click here for HE Commons Research Briefing: Higher education student numbers
Click here for Education Policy Institute Report
Click here For George Monbiot’s critical assessment of the Policy Exchange Think Tank
Click here for public school subsidies
Click here for detailed DFF PISA Report 2018
Click here for detailed DFE TIMSS Report 2020
Click here for more coverage of TIMMS report