Challenges to meritocracy? : a study of the social mechanisms in student selection and attainment at the University of Oxford
Educational transitions in the UK are related to social background characteristics such as social class and, to a lesser extent, ethnicity and gender. This thesis presents a case study of admission to the University of Oxford to understand why, conditional on application, admissions patterns into se...
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University of Oxford
2007
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.487168 |