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Two journal articles using the Scottish Young People’s Survey (SYPS) have just been published by Professor Lindsay Paterson, and can be accessed on this website. The articles ‘The experience of school in Scotland, 1970s to 1990s’ and ‘Curriculum and opportunity in Scottish secondary education: a half-century of expansion and inequality’ shed light on how educational … Continued

This new briefing by Professor Vikki Boliver of Durham University is a 5-page summary of this year’s memorial lecture in honour of the late Professor David Raffe. Her briefing draws on her recent research in Scotland to consider how we can promote fairer access to university study for disadvantaged applicants. It can be accessed directly … Continued

Video, slides and transcript now available – see below. On 25 March 2019, Professor Vikki Boliver of Durham University gave the 2nd annual memorial lecture in honour of the late David Raffe, Professor of Sociology of Education and Director of the Centre for Educational Sociology at the University of Edinburgh. The video is here (Univ … Continued

This new briefing is a five-page precis of Supporting Widening Participation Students in Three Scottish Universities, which is the report of a study by Cathy Howieson and Sarah Minty that investigated the experience of students from Widening Participation (WP) backgrounds in their first year of university study. It focussed on their awareness and use of … Continued

An analysis of people accessing our ‘CES Briefings’ shows that over the 5-year period from 2014-2018, the 66 pdfs were downloaded a total of 266,000 times – note that these were not ‘hits’ but actual successful downloads of whole pdfs. The single most downloaded briefing was no. 35 ‘Does Education Promote Social Mobility?’ by Cristina … Continued

We are pleased to announce that Prof Lindsay Paterson has written up his recent David Raffe Memorial Lecture as CES briefing no. 66.  It can be viewed and downloaded here (in new tab)

Prof Lindsay Paterson’s lecture honouring Prof David Raffe is now available – click here

There was a great response to the lecture in honour of Professor David Raffe, chaired by Professor Rowena Arshad OBE (above) and delivered by Professor Lindsay Paterson, with over 125 people squeezing into the venue. David, in his roles as Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Edinburgh and Director of its Centre for Educational Sociology, … Continued

CES Associate John Hart is a member of the UNESCO Expert Group on World Reference Levels (WRLs). The group was set up in at the end of 2015 to respond to the growing need for a reliable and manageable way to supplement and simplify the current processes of comparing, matching and recognising qualifications and credentials world-wide.  John … Continued

Professor Lindsay Paterson will give a public lecture in honour of the late Professor David Raffe (Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Edinburgh, and Director of its Centre for Educational Sociology). David made an immense contribution to educational research in the UK and internationally over a 40 year period. His work was … Continued