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Educational aspirations among UK young teenagers: exploring the role of gender, class and ethnicity

Educational aspirations among UK young teenagers: exploring the role of gender, class and ethnicity
Educational aspirations among UK young teenagers: exploring the role of gender, class and ethnicity
This paper presents an overview of teenagers’ aspirations for higher levels of education during the recent economic recession. We analyse the responses of 4899 young people aged 10 to 15, who participated in the UK Household Longitudinal Study in 2009-10. The timing of the survey is especially significant given the political emphasis on raising aspirations as a means to stimulate the economy. We consider the impact of gender, parental occupational class, parental educational background, family structure and parental attitudes towards education upon teenagers’ educational aspirations, and use multiple regression analyses to consider whether their effects are consistent across ethnic groups. Until now, only limited nationally representative data on young people’s aspirations have been available, especially in respect of ethnic differences. This research aims to fill that gap. It was undertaken as part of a wider study into the aspirations for living and learning among young people in the UK.
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Roberts, Steven
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Roberts, Steven, Berrington, Ann and Tammes, Peter , McGowan, Teresa and West, Genna (eds.) (2014) Educational aspirations among UK young teenagers: exploring the role of gender, class and ethnicity (ESRC Centre for Population Change Briefing Paper, 21) Southampton, GB. University of Southampton 4pp.

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This paper presents an overview of teenagers’ aspirations for higher levels of education during the recent economic recession. We analyse the responses of 4899 young people aged 10 to 15, who participated in the UK Household Longitudinal Study in 2009-10. The timing of the survey is especially significant given the political emphasis on raising aspirations as a means to stimulate the economy. We consider the impact of gender, parental occupational class, parental educational background, family structure and parental attitudes towards education upon teenagers’ educational aspirations, and use multiple regression analyses to consider whether their effects are consistent across ethnic groups. Until now, only limited nationally representative data on young people’s aspirations have been available, especially in respect of ethnic differences. This research aims to fill that gap. It was undertaken as part of a wider study into the aspirations for living and learning among young people in the UK.

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Published date: November 2014
Organisations: Social Statistics & Demography, Centre for Population Change

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Local EPrints ID: 372556
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/372556
PURE UUID: 5cf6d6de-3cff-4691-b704-fe89965f16a5
ORCID for Ann Berrington: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1683-6668
ORCID for Teresa McGowan: ORCID iD orcid.org/0009-0002-9231-3743

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Date deposited: 12 Dec 2014 16:20
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:23

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Author: Steven Roberts
Author: Ann Berrington ORCID iD
Author: Peter Tammes
Editor: Teresa McGowan ORCID iD
Editor: Genna West

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