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UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · 19d

📢📢📢New academic year, new seminar series!!

⬇️ We've got a great line up of speakers for Autumn 2025.

Join us in-person and online fortnightly on Thursdays at 3PM.

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Paul Martin @paul-ed-martin.bsky.social · Aug 1

On FSM during Year 11. Some of these students won't have made it to sixth form.

Paul Martin @paul-ed-martin.bsky.social · Jul 31

HE participation among free school meals eligible students has also dipped again for the second year running. However the gap between FSM and non-FSM has narrowed slightly, due to a larger dip in non-FSM participation.

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Paul Martin @paul-ed-martin.bsky.social · Jul 31

This could suggest that due to differences in the way that teacher assessment grades were implemented in 2021, students were much more likely to meet the conditions of conditional offers set by high-tariff universities that year...

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Paul Martin @paul-ed-martin.bsky.social · Jul 31

We can also see more clearly now what happened at 'high tariff' unis during Covid. Participation spiked from 13% (2020 A levels cohort) to 15.3% (2021 A levels cohort) before returning to business as usual at 12.8% (2022 A levels cohort)...

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Paul Martin @paul-ed-martin.bsky.social · Jul 31

The DfE have been publishing these stats for 15+ years. Every year so far the proportion of state school pupils progressing to HE by age 19 has gone up. This year (those who took GCSEs in 2020 and A levels in 2022) is the first year that HE participation has gone down, from 46.9% to 45.8%...

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Paul Martin @paul-ed-martin.bsky.social · Jul 31

Today the DfE have published their latest stats on widening participation in HE. Here are a few quick thoughts...
explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statist...

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Paul Martin @paul-ed-martin.bsky.social · Jun 19

Looking forward to contributing to @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social's training workshop on using R to analyse data in the National Pupil Database.

Come and join us next month in London if you can!

UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · Jun 19

In partnership with ADR UK, we're offering free practical training workshops to support users to use the National Pupil Database.

Sign up for either our workshop for Stata users on Jul 14th:
bit.ly/44cvf0V

Or our session for R users on Jul 22nd:
bit.ly/4kR1Ssd

Location: UCL
Time: 10.30am - 4.30pm

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Paul Martin @paul-ed-martin.bsky.social · Jun 19

Thanks @dkernohan.bsky.social!

Paul Martin @paul-ed-martin.bsky.social · Jun 19

Thanks @unabridgedopinions.com!

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Paul Martin @paul-ed-martin.bsky.social · Jun 18

You can also read my full research article on this subject here...
doi.org/10.1080/0267...

Examining the relationship between ethnicity, school attainment and higher education participation in England

Analyses of administrative data have revealed that during the 1990s and early twenty-first century, young people in England from ethnic minority backgrounds appeared to have a greater propensity to...

doi.org

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Paul Martin @paul-ed-martin.bsky.social · Jun 18

In my latest article for @wonkhe.bsky.social I summarise findings of my research into disparities in higher education access by ethnicity.

HE participation gaps by ethnicity are especially large for those with lower school attainment. I consider the longer term ramifications...

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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · Jun 18

NEW on Wonkhe: Why do proportionally more young people from ethnic minorities go to university, but proportionally less of them get first class degrees? Paul Martin has done the research. buff.ly/eST9Mnr

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UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · May 7

Want to know more about the evidence underpinning the government's focus on equality of opportunity via its Opportunities Mission?

Read the latest @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social briefing from @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social and @laouthwaite.bsky.social

econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucl:ce...

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Paul Martin @paul-ed-martin.bsky.social · Apr 16

We're considering some work online these lines in future, but for it to work best it's likely to involve a fresh new analysis. Drop me an email and perhaps I can keep you updated.

Paul Martin @paul-ed-martin.bsky.social · Apr 16

Thanks Tim - you should check out this research from Uni of Exeter too if you haven't already seen it...
www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12...

www.mdpi.com

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UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · Apr 15

Have you registered for the CEPEO Annual Lecture 2025?

Join us in London from 6pm on 10th July to hear from Prof. Chloe Gibbs, who will draw together evidence from across her research portfolio to provide insights into smart investments in early childhood education.

www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

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Paul Martin @paul-ed-martin.bsky.social · Apr 14

Find out more in the Data Insight at this link:
www.adruk.org/news-publica...

Data Insight: Investigating the relationship between higher education participation, personal characteristics and area of residence among school or college leavers

This Data Insight investigates the extent to which the personal characteristics and area of residence of school or college leavers in England have a bearing ...

www.adruk.org

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Paul Martin @paul-ed-martin.bsky.social · Apr 14

Even if schools outside of the capital could catch up with London in terms of average attainment, we'd still expect HE participation disparities to persist, due to average demographic differences...

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Paul Martin @paul-ed-martin.bsky.social · Apr 14

We might then largely rule out other possible explanations, for example that teachers in schools and colleges in London offer their students more encouragement to apply to university....

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Paul Martin @paul-ed-martin.bsky.social · Apr 14

I find that once you account for attainment differences, around half of the gap in HE participation between London and elsewhere disappears. Once you then control for demographic differences, many regions then catch up with London...

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Paul Martin @paul-ed-martin.bsky.social · Apr 14

Secondly, there are key demographic differences between London and elsewhere. For example, London is more ethnically diverse than other regions in England....

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Paul Martin @paul-ed-martin.bsky.social · Apr 14

I find that there are two key differences between London and the rest of England. Firstly, young people in schools in London, on average, do a lot better in their GCSE exams than those elsewhere. This is actually a reversal of the way things have been historically...

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Paul Martin @paul-ed-martin.bsky.social · Apr 14

I undertook some analysis of data from the National Pupil Database, linked with the Higher Education Statistics Agency, which I've published in my recent Data Insight publication for ADR UK...

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Paul Martin @paul-ed-martin.bsky.social · Apr 14

Young people growing up in London are much more likely to go to university than those in every other region of England. Why is this? 🧵

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UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · Mar 31

Check out @paul-ed-martin.bsky.social (CEPEO) new Data Insight on how where you live and your personal background affect your chances of going to university! 🎓📚

www.adruk.org/fileadmin/up...

www.adruk.org

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