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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.

Barbara Pym (2011)
Journal Article

A biography of Pym and a summary of some of the key themes in her novels.

Have the changes introduced by the 2004 Higher Education Act made higher education admissions in England wider and fairer? (2011)
Journal Article

'Widening participation' and 'fair access' have been contested policy areas in English higher education since at least the early 1990s. They were key facets of the 2003 White Paper - The Future of Higher Education - and the subsequent 2004 Higher Edu... Read More about Have the changes introduced by the 2004 Higher Education Act made higher education admissions in England wider and fairer?.

Overactive, overwrought or overdrawn? the role of personality in undergraduate financial knowledge, decision-making and debt (2011)
Journal Article

The financial situation of undergraduate students remains a high-profile issue within the UK higher education sector, not least due to its perceived relationship with retention, well-being and success. This article probes this question from a new dir... Read More about Overactive, overwrought or overdrawn? the role of personality in undergraduate financial knowledge, decision-making and debt.

Randomised controlled trial of thermostatic mixer valves in reducing bath hot tap water temperature in families with young children in social housing (2011)
Journal Article

Objectives: To assess the effectiveness of thermostatic mixing valves (TMVs) in reducing bath hot tap water temperature, assess acceptability of TMVs to families and impact on bath time safety practices. Design: Pragmatic parallel arm randomised cont... Read More about Randomised controlled trial of thermostatic mixer valves in reducing bath hot tap water temperature in families with young children in social housing.