Page contents > Ethnicity and Higher Education | Evaluation of the UK Resilience Project | Attainment gaps between the most deprived and advantaged schools | Secondary school admissions in England: Admission Forums, local authorities and schools | Secondary school admissions in England: Policy and practice | The Primary Review | Evaluation of the Two Year Key Stage 3 Project | Parents' role in setting up new secondary schools | Secondary school admissions in London | Evaluations of Excellence in Cities, Aimhigher: Excellence Challenge, Pupil Learning Credits | Secondary school admissions in England
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Ethnicity and Higher Education
This project, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, examines whether applicants from particular ethnic groups are more likely to receive conditional offers of a university place. The project is directed by Dr Mike Shiner.
Evaluation of the UK Resilience Project
The evaluation, funded by the DFE, examines the impact of a programme designed to improve children's psychological resilience through teaching cognitive, behavioural and problem solving skills to promote optimistic thinking and resilience. The project is carried out in collaboration with Amy Challen and Professor Steve Machin from the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE.
Attainment gaps between the most deprived and advantaged schools
The Sutton Trust funded this research project which examines the attainment gap between pupils attending the most and least advantaged schools (as measured by rates of eligibility for free school meals (FSM)). The attainment gaps for pupils eligible for FSM, not eligible for FSM are also examined and also for pupils with high levels of prior attainment. This project was undertaken by Philip Noden and Anne West.
http://www.suttontrust.com/research/attainment-gaps-between-the-most-deprived-and-advantaged-schools/|
Secondary school admissions in England: Admission Forums, local authorities and schools
This project which was commissioned by the Research and Information on State Education Trust (RISE) with funding from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation examined Admission Forums and their operation in a sample of local authorities.
http://www.risetrust.org.uk/forums.html|
Secondary school admissions in England: Policy and practice
This project which was commissioned by the Research and Information on State Education Trust (RISE) with funding from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation focused on admissions criteria and practices in England in light of changes to the legislative and regulatory context.
http://www.risetrust.org.uk/secondary.html|
The Primary Review
Philip Noden and Anne West contributed to The Primary Review on the condition and future of primary education in England, based at the University of Cambridge and supported by Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
http://www.primaryreview.org.uk/Downloads/Int_Reps/7.Governance-finance-reform/RS_10-1_briefing_Funding_080229.pdf|
Evaluation of the Two Year Key Stage 3 Project
This research was funded by the Department for Education and Skills and carried out in conjunction with the National Foundation for Educational Research.
http://publications.education.gov.uk/eOrderingDownload/RR836.pdf|
Parents' role in setting up new secondary schools
This research was commissioned by the Research and Information on State Education Trust (RISE), with funding from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. The research explored the role of parents in the planning and setting up of new secondary schools prior to the Education and Inspections Act 2006.
http://www.risetrust.org.uk/Parents.pdf|
Secondary school admissions in London
This research was funded by the Greater London Authority. It examines secondary schools' admissions criteria and practices in London for 2005/06, with a particular focus on disadvantaged pupils. It also examines, from the perspective of local authorities, how effectively the Pan London Co-ordinated Admissions Scheme functioned during its first year.
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ERG/pdf/cmp19.pdf|
Evaluations of Excellence in Cities, Aimhigher: Excellence Challenge, Pupil Learning Credits
These evaluations were funded by the Department for Education and Skills and carried out by a consortium comprising the National Foundation for Educational Research, the Education Research Group, the Centre for Economic Performance and (for some of the evaluations) the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Excellence in Cities:
http://education.gov.uk/publications/standard/publicationDetail/Page1/RR675A|
Aimhigher: Excellence Challenge:
http://publications.education.gov.uk/eOrderingDownload/RR709.pdf|
Pupil Learning Credits
http://education.gov.uk/publications/standard/publicationDetail/Page1/RR687|
Secondary school admissions in England
This project, which examined secondary school admissions in England was carried out in conjunction with the Research and Information on State Education Trust.
http://www.risetrust.org.uk/admissions.html|