Paul Martin

Excited to be sharing research carried out with @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social and @clairetyler.bsky.social on disparities in promotions likelihood at this workshop at @theifs.bsky.social later this Month.

Come along if you can!

Very pleased to be contributing to these excellent free courses next month. Join us if you can!

Around a third of 18 year old undergrads now plan to live at home, according to the latest UCAS data. For those in deprived neighbourhoods, the figure is 51%

There's a risk that for some students, moving away from home just isn't financially viable any more.

www.ucas.com/corporate/ne...

Using UCAS data to understand higher education transitions Join us in person at the Department for Education in London to learn more about using UCAS data to better understand youth transitions

Want to know more about using UCAS data to research transitions to HE (and delay the return to your desk in Jan!)?

Join us in person at the Department for Education in London for a research showcase with @adruk.bsky.social

🕕Tues 6th Jan, 10.30am-4pm

Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1977270535...

CEPEO is launching a new Master's programme with @sriucl.bsky.social — this will support students to understand and conduct rigorous research addressing challenges in education policy & educational inequalities.

Applications now open for Oct 2026 start.

Find out more: www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...

Obviously other stuff going on in the news rn so you may have missed the release of the @houseoflords.parliament.uk Social Mobility Policy Committee 2024-2026 report.

Some important recs incl some from CEPEO regarding uni loans and a lack of data:
committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide...

Encouraging that the House of Lords Social Mobility Policy Committee recognizes that the longstanding freeze of £25k as the household income at which students no longer get maximum student loan is becoming an impediment to social mobility and needs to rise
publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...

ICYMI - New CEPEO blogs:

1️⃣Investigating the consequences of paid employment during full-time study

@paul-ed-martin.bsky.social shares his new research project, where he will use LEO data to paint the most comprehensive picture so far of student employment

👉 blogs.ucl.ac.uk/cepeo/2025/1...

Nice to see a commitment in this week's white paper to make LEO earnings data available for HE applicants on the UCAS website. At the moment, it's tucked away on the 'Discover Uni' site which many applicants don't use. This will be in addition to the historical grades on entry data already provided.

CEPEO welcomes the announcements from this week’s education and skills white paper of index-linking tuition fees and maintenance loans, as well as the return of some non-repayable maintenance grants for disadvantaged students. [1/7] 🧵

👀 Important new project led by one of our Senior Research Fellows and funded by @nuffieldfoundation.org

Paul will be looking at changes in student employment and how this helps or hinders their life chances.

Congratulations Paul, we’re looking forward to learning more from this work

Student employment and subsequent education and labour market outcomes  - Nuffield Foundation This project will investigate how paid employment alongside studying impacts educational and career.

You can also find some more details on the project webpage:
www.nuffieldfoundation.org/project/stud...

Very excited to announce that from January I will be leading a new research project funded by @nuffieldfoundation.org, using LEO data to investigate the consequences of student employment, whether positive or negative.

My new blog for @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social provides an overview:
bit.ly/4n7KO1f

📢📢📢New academic year, new seminar series!!

⬇️ We've got a great line up of speakers for Autumn 2025.

Join us in-person and online fortnightly on Thursdays at 3PM.

Sign up to join online here: ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

On FSM during Year 11. Some of these students won't have made it to sixth form.

HE participation among free school meals eligible students has also dipped again for the second year running. However the gap between FSM and non-FSM has narrowed slightly, due to a larger dip in non-FSM participation.

This could suggest that due to differences in the way that teacher assessment grades were implemented in 2021, students were much more likely to meet the conditions of conditional offers set by high-tariff universities that year...

We can also see more clearly now what happened at 'high tariff' unis during Covid. Participation spiked from 13% (2020 A levels cohort) to 15.3% (2021 A levels cohort) before returning to business as usual at 12.8% (2022 A levels cohort)...

The DfE have been publishing these stats for 15+ years. Every year so far the proportion of state school pupils progressing to HE by age 19 has gone up. This year (those who took GCSEs in 2020 and A levels in 2022) is the first year that HE participation has gone down, from 46.9% to 45.8%...

Today the DfE have published their latest stats on widening participation in HE. Here are a few quick thoughts...
explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statist...

Looking forward to contributing to @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social's training workshop on using R to analyse data in the National Pupil Database.

Come and join us next month in London if you can!

Thanks @dkernohan.bsky.social!

Thanks @unabridgedopinions.com!

Examining the relationship between ethnicity, school attainment and higher education participation in England Analyses of administrative data have revealed that during the 1990s and early twenty-first century, young people in England from ethnic minority backgrounds appeared to have a greater propensity to...

You can also read my full research article on this subject here...
doi.org/10.1080/0267...

In my latest article for @wonkhe.bsky.social I summarise findings of my research into disparities in higher education access by ethnicity.

HE participation gaps by ethnicity are especially large for those with lower school attainment. I consider the longer term ramifications...

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Want to know more about the evidence underpinning the government's focus on equality of opportunity via its Opportunities Mission?

Read the latest @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social briefing from @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social and @laouthwaite.bsky.social

econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucl:ce...

We're considering some work online these lines in future, but for it to work best it's likely to involve a fresh new analysis. Drop me an email and perhaps I can keep you updated.

Thanks Tim - you should check out this research from Uni of Exeter too if you haven't already seen it...
www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12...

Have you registered for the CEPEO Annual Lecture 2025?

Join us in London from 6pm on 10th July to hear from Prof. Chloe Gibbs, who will draw together evidence from across her research portfolio to provide insights into smart investments in early childhood education.

www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

Data Insight: Investigating the relationship between higher education participation, personal characteristics and area of residence among school or college leavers This Data Insight investigates the extent to which the personal characteristics and area of residence of school or college leavers in England have a bearing ...

Find out more in the Data Insight at this link:
www.adruk.org/news-publica...