{"id":1797,"date":"2014-04-09T11:57:37","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T11:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copyright.lboro.ac.uk\/teachingandlearning\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2014-04-09T11:57:37","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T11:57:37","slug":"hefce-report-compares-a-level-success-and-degree-attainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2014\/04\/09\/hefce-report-compares-a-level-success-and-degree-attainment\/","title":{"rendered":"HEFCE report compares A level success and degree attainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teachingandlearning\/?attachment_id=1798\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1798\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1798\" alt=\"hefce logo\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teachingandlearning2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/04\/hefce801.gif\" width=\"238\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a>A recent HEFCE report follows 130,000\u00a0home A-level students who entered\u00a0 university education in\u00a0 2007-8. The report\u00a0compares a number of factors which affect success at university, including: ethnicity, household income, state versus independent schooling, GCSE performance and\u00a0overall school performance.\u00a0 This current report builds on previous work and affirms the previous findings that, although students from independent schools are more likely to enter university with higher A- level grades than their state school counterparts, &#8220;that students with similar prior attainment from independent schools do consistently less well at the end of their degree studies than students from other schools and colleges&#8221; (p2).<\/p>\n<p>Read the full report <a title=\"here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hefce.ac.uk\/media\/hefce\/content\/pubs\/2014\/201403\/HEFCE2014_03.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a>\u00a0(2.7MB)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent HEFCE report follows 130,000\u00a0home A-level students who entered\u00a0 university education in\u00a0 2007-8. The report\u00a0compares a number of factors which affect success at university, including: ethnicity, household income, state versus independent schooling, GCSE performance and\u00a0overall school performance.\u00a0 This current report builds on previous work and affirms the previous findings that, although students from independent<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2014\/04\/09\/hefce-report-compares-a-level-success-and-degree-attainment\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reports","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}