Essays about: "education in uk"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 33 essays containing the words education in uk.

  1. 1. A Call for Action: Placing Emergency on the Agenda : A Study on Irish Public Opinion and the Climate Emergency Declaration

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Magdalena Vestin; [2024]
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    Abstract : This study researches how public attitudes can affect policy, which is done by examining if climate change issues can be placed onto the agenda by actors outside of the policy process. The study centers on Ireland as the first nation to declare a climate emergency, with the UK taking the role of control group due to them not having made such a declaration. READ MORE

  3. 2. Mapping the reality of relationshop and sex education in the UK: A phenomenographic exploration of stakeholder conceptions regarding religious and political issues affecting a school’s implementation of policy.

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och specialpedagogik

    Author : Samuel Paul Holt; [2023-06-19]
    Keywords : Personal social health and economic education; PSHE; relationship and sex education; RSE; statutory guidance; phenomenography;

    Abstract : Aim: This case study aims to ontologically map out the conceptions that stakeholders in a small rural school in Norfolk have regarding the new statutory guidance for relationship and sex education (RSE). The main areas of exploration are the conditions under which RSE is understood, structured and taught. READ MORE

  4. 3. Like Parents, Like Children - The Effects of Social Origins on Children's Higher Educational Attainment in the UK

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Jonathan Stefansson; Peiyu Wang; [2023]
    Keywords : educational inequality; social origin; higher education;

    Abstract : An educated populace is a prerequisite for a functioning modern society. Educational inequality based on social origins might therefore have large economic consequences for both individuals and society at large. READ MORE

  5. 4. University tuition fees’ effect on future outcomes : A study on the correlation between higher education costs and income distribution

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS)

    Author : Nicol Nowicka; [2023]
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    Abstract : This paper focuses on studying whether a tuition fee for obtaining higher education affects the wage distribution in the United Kingdom. The hypothesis builds on theoretical framework that the higher cost of obtaining education leads to a higher pay for workers with college diploma, which in turn widens the gap between wages with different schooling levels and increases the inequality in the country. READ MORE

  6. 5. Behind the Academic Underachievement of Black Caribbean Children in the United Kingdom : Examining the Prevalence and Impacts of Structural Barriers and Teachers’ Low Expectations in the Schooling of Black Caribbean Children in the United Kingdom

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    Author : Shewit Yemane; [2023]
    Keywords : Black Caribbean children; academic underachievement; teachers low expectations; self-efficacy.;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to understand the prevalence and impacts of structural barriers and teachers’ low expectations in the academic underachievement of Black Caribbean children in the United Kingdom. In doing so, this thesis has utilized the following two theories: systemic racism and self-efficacy. READ MORE