Representation of Ethnic Groups in Chemistry and Physics

Contents
List of figures and tables
List of appendices
Abbreviations
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1: Introduction 1
1.1 Scope of the review 1
1.2 Background 1
1.3 Structure 2
2: Key concepts 3
2.1 The educational pipeline 3
2.2 Potential undergraduate scientists 3
3: Methodology 5
3.1 Data sources 5
3.1 .1 National Curriculum Assessment 5
3.1 .2 Youth Cohort Study 5
3.1 .3 Higher Education Statistics Agency 5
3.1 .4 Labour Force Survey 6
3.2 Linking Youth Cohort Study and Higher Education Statistics Agency data sets 6
3.3 Statistical significance 7
4: The educational pipeline 8
5: Ethnicity and compulsory schooling 12
6: Ethnicity and science at A-level 14
6.1 Science subjects at A-level 14
6.2 Potential undergraduate scientists 16
7: Ethnicity and undergraduate studies 20
7.1 Ethnic-minority representation in undergraduate chemistry and physics 20
7.2 Ethnic-minority representation in SET, medicine and other subjects 22
7.3 Achievement in undergraduate chemistry and physics 27
8: Ethnicity and postgraduate studies 30
9: Conclusions and recommendations 33
References 35
Appendices 36
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