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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract There is much interest in the potential for an alternative funding system for higher education students in England to support the spiritual and worldly needs of British Muslim students. At the heart of this issue lies a tension over whether the student financing system in English HE is haram, or forbidden under Islamic (Shari'ah) law, because ...
Richard Hall +2 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper analyses differences in academic achievement associated with attendance at publicly funded private schools and public schools across 11 European countries. Using eight waves of PISA data (2000–2022), we apply OLS, IPW and IPWRA estimators to account for observed heterogeneity and mitigate selection bias.
Priya Maurya +2 more
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Screening Peers Softly: Inferring the Quality of Small Borrowers [PDF]
The recent banking crisis highlights the challenges faced in credit intermediation. New online peer-to-peer lending markets offer opportunities to examine lending models that primarily cater to small borrowers and that generate more types of information ...
Rajkamal Iyer +3 more
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Falling pupil numbers and school closures: Setting a research agenda for a new era of precarity
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the significant phenomenon of decreasing pupil numbers in England due to lower birth rates and the impact of a school closure on a school community. It then discusses how the sociology of education might research this major issue.
Eleanor Fagan, Alice Bradbury
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The mental health and wellbeing of young people has received increasing attention in both research and the wider public discourse. There has been a marked rise in mental health conditions in young people, and the burden of care is increasingly transferred onto schools and teachers.
Thomas Godfrey‐Faussett +6 more
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Group versus Individual Liability: Long Term Evidence from Philippine Microcredit Lending Groups [PDF]
Group liability in microcredit purports to improve repayment rates through peer screening, monitoring, and enforcement. However, it may create excessive pressure, and discourage reliable clients from borrowing.
Dean Karlan, Xavier Giné
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Racial inequalities are pervasive in higher education despite concerted efforts to redress issues of access, progression and continuation. Little attention has been paid to how universities themselves construct race within their policy texts.
Benjamin Hart, Mirna Šumatić
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract In England, education is compulsory, but schooling is not: it is legal for families to home educate their children. This form of education is officially termed by the Department for Education as ‘Elective Home Education’. As this designation implies, many families home educate as a positive and preferential ‘choice’.
Katherine Davey +3 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Character education research is often constrained by blunt methodological tools. Surveys capture breadth without depth; case studies offer richness but lack replicability; and randomised controlled trials (RCTs), though indispensable at the policy level, are costly, disruptive and ill‐suited to everyday practice with individual pupils.
Shane McLoughlin
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