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Your responsibilities with your local council if you want to educate your child at home - sometimes called home schooling
Types of school and how they're run - community schools, academies, free schools, faith schools, state boarding schools.
All children in England between the ages of 5 and 16 are entitled to a…
Faith schools have to follow the national curriculum, but they can choose…
Free schools are funded by the government but are not run by the local…
Academies receive funding directly from the government and are run by an…
City technology colleges and ‘ the city college for the technology of the…
State boarding schools provide free education but charge fees for…
Private schools (also known as ‘independent schools’) charge fees to…
This study attempts to understand belief formation regarding returns to schooling using a survey of 402 households in Rajasthan
This article documents the evolution of education policy in tandem with shifts in elite perceptions of the goals of schooling
Outlines the conceptual and analytical framework and the methodological features of this Young Lives study
Summary of the existing evidence of the health and wellbeing benefits of school-age education.
This paper builds a simple parameterized model of the learning process and calibrates the parameters to replicate observed learning outcomes
This study uses comparable data sets which contain measures of schooling, literacy, and life outcomes for more than 50 countries
This paper is based on analysis of in-depth interviews with parents of children aged 9-10 years in Andhra Pradesh
Background Paper for the World Development Report 2013
Investigates whether pupil’s attainment, attitude and self-confidence are associated with teacher beliefs, experience and background
Sending a child to school, financial support, dealing with the school
Experiences of parents of children with disabilities from low income families living in a rural community in India
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