Inequality in educational careers

Knowledge of when, where and how early education gaps emerge, and how characteristics of countries’ education systems reinforce or attenuate disparities is needed for informed policy making at the local and national state-level.

ISOTIS has the objective of determining educational inequalities in European countries and changes over time as related to changes in educational institutions and policies. To realise this objective, our team proposes to:

- Analyse the relations of educational attainment and labour market position with socioeconomic background, migrant and native minority background.
- Examine the relations between educational inequalities and characteristics of the national education systems, focusing on the age of onset of early childhood education, the transition to primary and secondary education, and the degree of tracking in secondary education.

ISOTIS expects to contribute to an informed and constructive public discourse and policy making on inequalities in the context of cultural diversity.

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