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Attitudes to School and Intentions for Educational Participation: An Analysis of Data from the Longitudinal Survey of young people in England (2011)
Journal Article

The paper investigates the attitudes of young people in England towards schooling and education and the relationship of these attitudes to intentions for educational participation and to various background characteristics of the young people. It prov... Read More about Attitudes to School and Intentions for Educational Participation: An Analysis of Data from the Longitudinal Survey of young people in England.

Recovering potential: Factors associated with success in engaging challenging students with alternative pre-16 provision (2005)
Journal Article

The study focuses on a group of young people for whom conventional school placements had broken down and were attending vocational courses at an FE college while still of compulsory school age. The students had been excluded by, or had failed to atte... Read More about Recovering potential: Factors associated with success in engaging challenging students with alternative pre-16 provision.

Challenging students in further education: Themes arising from a study of innovative FE provision for excluded and disaffected young people (2004)
Journal Article

The paper draws on a research project on innovative provision in an FE college for excluded and disaffected young people. The college offers places on vocational courses to students who are still of compulsory school age who have been excluded by or... Read More about Challenging students in further education: Themes arising from a study of innovative FE provision for excluded and disaffected young people.

Re-engaging with education (2003)
Journal Article

The paper reports a study of alternative pre- 16 provision in a college of further education for young people who were disaffected and/or non-attenders at secondary school. The data are derived from interviews with 26 of these young people who were ‘... Read More about Re-engaging with education.