This CaSE report on socioeconomic diversity in HE STEM students might be of interest: http://sciencecampaign.org.uk/documents/2012/CaSESTEMSESBriefing.pdf
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From: psci-com: on public engagement with science [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Dominic McDonald [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 26 September 2013 09:43
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Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] Encouraging teenagers from state schools to study science
Hi Richard (and all)
It's an interesting question, and one I've not thought about before.
It's certainly the case that the Oxfordshire Science Festival positively discriminates to get a good mix of participants: gender; how "local"they are (define...); ethnicity; disability... But I don't think we've ever thrown schooling into the mix.
We only programme a very small number of events, though (OSF is essentially a tiny festival with a massive fringe) so colleagues in more centrally-coordinated festivals may have thought about it rather more.
Food for thought...
Dom
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
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