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Hi, I too would like to see more of a breakdown and would be particularly interested in a comparison between those choosing to stay in a state school sixth form and those going to college. Glad to see the back of school, but determined to continue studying, I chose to do my A' Levels at a large college before studying Astrophysics at Uni. Back then it never even crossed my mind that it would make a blind bit of difference where I did my A'Levels, but it would be really useful to know if it does. Young people often discuss study options with me and it would be nice to give them a bit more info. Katie Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 09:13:38 +0100 From: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] Encouraging teenagers from state schools to study science To: [log in to unmask] I'd be pretty interested in this, but I'd also like to see more of a breakdown because I went to a state school that was previously a grammar school, and then went to Cambridge to study Physics (well, Natural Sciences, but focusing on Physics). I would like to know if there's a gap between that type of school and schools that have always been comprehensives too. Michael On 26 September 2013 08:47, richard wiseman <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Hi I am trying to find out more about the percentage of teenagers from fee paying and state funded schools that study science at University, stay in academia, etc. There's lots of material out there on education in general - e.g., the 5 top fee paying schools send more pupils to Oxbridge than over 2,000 state schools - but I can find very little on science. Lots of the general work shows that financing a degree is clearly an issue, but also that many state school teenagers rarely hear about academics who went to state schools. Assuming there is an issue, have any science festivals tried to address the problem (e.g. encouraging more speakers who had a state school education, placing a cap on the number of speakers who went to fee paying schools, etc.). Any help gratefully received! Cheers Richard Professor Richard Wiseman Psychology Department University of Hertfordshire ********************************************************************** Commands - send an email (any subject) to [log in to unmask] with one of the following messages (ignoring text in brackets) • set psci-com nomail (to stop receiving messages while on holiday) • set psci-com mail (to resume getting messages) • signoff psci-com (to leave the list) • Subscribe here https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=psci-com Contact list owner at [log in to unmask] Small print and JISCMail acceptable use policy https://sites.google.com/site/pscicomjiscmail/the-small-print ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** Commands - send an email (any subject) to [log in to unmask] with one of the following messages (ignoring text in brackets) • set psci-com nomail (to stop receiving messages while on holiday) • set psci-com mail (to resume getting messages) • signoff psci-com (to leave the list) • Subscribe here https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=psci-com Contact list owner at [log in to unmask] Small print and JISCMail acceptable use policy https://sites.google.com/site/pscicomjiscmail/the-small-print ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** Commands - send an email (any subject) to [log in to unmask] with one of the following messages (ignoring text in brackets) • set psci-com nomail (to stop receiving messages while on holiday) • set psci-com mail (to resume getting messages) • signoff psci-com (to leave the list) • Subscribe here https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=psci-com Contact list owner at [log in to unmask] Small print and JISCMail acceptable use policy https://sites.google.com/site/pscicomjiscmail/the-small-print **********************************************************************