Thesis
Challenges to meritocracy? A study of the social mechanisms in student selection and attainment at the University of Oxford
- Abstract:
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Educational transitions in the UK are related to social background characteristics such as social class and, to a lesser extent, ethnicity and gender. This thesis presents a case study of admission to the University of Oxford to understand why, conditional on application, admissions patterns into selective higher eduction in Britain show an advantage for already privileged strata of society. Specifically, net of attainment, the professional middle class, white, male and state school applicant...
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Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2007
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- Oxford University, UK
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- Language:
- English
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:2355
- Deposit date:
- 2008-09-29
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- Copyright holder:
- Zimdars, A
- Copyright date:
- 2007
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