Social Inequalities in Attaining Higher Education in Scotland: New Evidence from Sibling Data

Autor/inn/en	Duta, Adriana; Iannelli, Cristina; Breen, Richard
Titel	Social Inequalities in Attaining Higher Education in Scotland: New Evidence from Sibling Data
Quelle	In: British Educational Research Journal, 47 (2021) 5, S.1281-1302 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0141-1926
DOI	10.1002/berj.3725
Schlagwörter	Educational Attainment; Higher Education; Equal Education; Access to Education; Siblings; Family Characteristics; Socioeconomic Background; Social Class; Advantaged; Disadvantaged; Longitudinal Studies; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom (Scotland) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Sibling; Geschwister; Sozioökonomische Lage; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Ausland
Abstract	Over the last decades, various policies at national and local levels have been implemented to widen participation in higher education (HE) in Scotland and more widely in the UK. Despite this, the acquisition of a HE qualification is still largely determined by the family in which individuals are born. Our study provides new evidence on the extent to which family factors matter by examining sibling data from the Scottish Longitudinal Study, a large-scale linkage study created using data from administrative and statistical sources. Random effects linear probability models are used to analyse individual and family-level variance in the chances of obtaining a HE qualification. Our results show that about 40% of the variation in the chances of attaining a university degree is explained by siblings' shared family characteristics and about a third of this share is explained by parental social class, education and housing tenure. A high degree of sibling similarity in the outcome was found across all social-origin classes. However, while siblings of advantaged families are alike because they both graduated from HE, siblings of disadvantaged families are alike because neither of them did. We suggest that parental compensatory strategies in the former families and economic constraints in the latter families may explain such stark patterns of inequality. Finally, we do not find evidence that the availability of sub-degrees makes a difference to these patterns. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01