- Page 1 and 2: Parents' Experiences of the Process
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- Page 8 and 9: 4. LEA management of the process In
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- Page 12 and 13: parents perceive erroneously that t
- Page 14 and 15: less likely to be offered the schoo
- Page 19 and 20: 1.1 Aims of the research The Depart
- Page 21 and 22: In March 1999 the Government introd
- Page 23: Part 1 Policies and practices of LE
- Page 27 and 28: 2. The statutory context 2.1 As far
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- Page 32 and 33: 3.2 Capturing complexity Finding a
- Page 34 and 35: 3.3 The main features of admission
- Page 36 and 37: Type 4 Single Preference System Par
- Page 38 and 39: LEA1 The LEA uses a common form tha
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- Page 43: Table 8: The extent to which common
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- Page 54 and 55: 7.8 To know that an admission autho
- Page 56 and 57: 7.12 Does the LEA offer guidance ab
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the guidance in this Code in drawin
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9.5.4 Supply of and demand for scho
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In one LEA admissions to secondary
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1. Introduction 1.1 Background and
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2. Finding out about schools Summar
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2.3 Perceived usefulness of informa
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2.5 Use of performance tables The s
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social class (1.0 : 0.6) and those
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The logistic regression analysis ha
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Table 2.7 Parents use of formal pub
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To gain a place in such a school, p
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Table 3.1 Over-subscription criteri
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• Whether or not LEA part of EiC
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Table 3.3 Likelihood of parents rep
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Table 3.4 shows, for each of the va
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3.6 Applications to schools in othe
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3.7 Applications to more than one a
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Table 3.7 Parents applying to schoo
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Table 3.9 Number of applications to
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Parents were also asked the total n
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Table 3.13 Admission by interview %
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attending secondary school for at l
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In order to explore the hypothesis
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However, the proportion receiving m
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4.6 Appeals Parents who are not sat
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4.7 Parents' satisfaction with the
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was lower (60%). As shown below, th
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Table 4.9 Likelihood of parental di
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5. Factors that parents take into a
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A preliminary exploration of the da
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Controlling for other factors in th
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Table 5.3 Parents citing reasons wh
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likely than parents who were owner
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5.3 The characteristics of favourit
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chosen a favourite school with a hi
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Table 5.9 Likelihood of choosing a
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5.5 Reasons why parents did not app
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Table 5.14 Gender intake of unpopul
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6. Parents of children due to enter
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Table 6.1 Use of information source
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Table 6.4 Over-subscription criteri
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similar (see section 3.4). Analysis
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The proportions responding positive
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estimates than would otherwise have
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7.3 Key results Tables 7.2 to 7.7 p
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Table 7.3 Completion of LEA applica
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Table 7.4 Application routes 1999 a
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Table 7.6 Reasons for wanting a pla
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References 169
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Audit Commission. (1996) Trading Pl
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Appendices 173
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Appendix 1 Frequency of over-subscr
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Appendix 1: Frequency of over-subsc
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1 st priority 2 nd priority 3 rd pr
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1 st priority 1 0.7 2 nd priority 1
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Not included as criterion 125 88.7
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Table 16: Waiting lists: Breakdown
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Appendix 2 Applying for school plac
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Appendix 2: Applying for school pla
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other boroughs. The OFSTED LEA Insp
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some areas there is a shortage of p
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Assessment The information assumes
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A3.2 The interview in the nationall
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Table A3.1 Response to the survey 1
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The final sample was constructed as
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Correcting for non-response bias be
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Table A3.2 Weighting classes for no
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Appendix 4 The questionnaire ASK AL
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ASK ALWAYS: Respdnt INTERVIEWER: EN
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ASK IF: SchStrt6 = No YNtStrt6 Can
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IntCrit Some schools receive more a
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ASK IF: SchBro = Yes SchUse [*] How
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ASK IF: State7 = Yes OR Apply7 = Ye
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ASK IF: NOT (LEAform = No) FormSat
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ASK IF: State7 = Yes OR Apply7 = Ye
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ASK IF: NrSchK = Yes NrSName Which
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ASK IF: SCodeO = 9999999 SchDetO IN
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ASK IF: DirTest = Yes WhyTest How w
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ASK IF: PrefStat >= 1 AND PrefStat
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ASK IF: RefReas = Yes WhyRef What r
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ASK IF: SCodeA = 9999999 SchDetA IN
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ASK IF: (State6 = Yes) OR (Apply6 =
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ASK IF: AnyInfo = Yes InfUse [*] Wh
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ASK IF: AnyInfo = No AND PerfT IN W
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ASK IF: WhchSch = Yes Nr5SchK Can I
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ASK IF: (State5 = Yes) OR (Apply5 =
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ASKIF:((School/college/university q
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ASK IF: SCE Higher IN Quals NumSCE
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ASK IF: (State7 = Yes) OR (Apply7 =
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ASK IF: IN WORK OR EVER WORKED OccT
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ASK IF: Respprt < 97 AND: GrossP R
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ASK IF: PrefOth1 = RESPONSE YPrf1C
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