Rurality, socio-economic disadvantage and educational mobility: a Scottish case study

TY - UNPB

T1 - Rurality, socio-economic disadvantage and educational mobility

T2 - a Scottish case study

AU - Borbely, Daniel

AU - Gehrsitz, Markus

AU - McIntyre, Stuart

AU - Rossi, Gennaro

AU - Roy, Graeme

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - Rurality is known to be associated with a number of weaker educational outcomes from lower attainment through to lower social mobility. This is why so much policy and practitioner focus has been directed at addressing the rurality gap in educational outcomes. In this paper, we use pupil-level data for Scotland to contribute to two dimensions of this problem. First, we explore the relationship between socio-economic deprivation and educational mobility across urban and rural primary schools in Scotland. This provides new insights on the issue of rural disadvantage. Second, we use our dataset to explore the socio-economic makeup of urban and rural schools in Scotland documenting that schools located in the highest and lowest SIMD areas are more homogeneous than those in the middle. This is important for the classification of schools in targeting educational interventions in improving social mobility.

AB - Rurality is known to be associated with a number of weaker educational outcomes from lower attainment through to lower social mobility. This is why so much policy and practitioner focus has been directed at addressing the rurality gap in educational outcomes. In this paper, we use pupil-level data for Scotland to contribute to two dimensions of this problem. First, we explore the relationship between socio-economic deprivation and educational mobility across urban and rural primary schools in Scotland. This provides new insights on the issue of rural disadvantage. Second, we use our dataset to explore the socio-economic makeup of urban and rural schools in Scotland documenting that schools located in the highest and lowest SIMD areas are more homogeneous than those in the middle. This is important for the classification of schools in targeting educational interventions in improving social mobility.

KW - Educational Mobility

KW - Primary Education

KW - Rurality

KW - Socio-Economic Disadvantage

UR - https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/82731/

M3 - Discussion paper

VL - 22

T3 - Strathclyde Discussion Papers in Economics

SP - 1

BT - Rurality, socio-economic disadvantage and educational mobility

PB - University of Strathclyde

ER -