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SUMMARY:Public Policy Seminar: Inequality and Education Policy - Professor
  Anna Vignoles\, Faculty of Education
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CONTACT:Dr Charlotte Sausman
DESCRIPTION:Professor Anna Vignoles is Professor of Education and Director
  of Research. She has published widely on widening participation in higher
  education\, social mobility\, the impact of school resources on pupil ach
 ievement and on the socio-economic gap in pupil achievement. Her research 
 interests include issues pertaining to equity in education\, school choice
 \, school efficiency and finance and the economic value of schooling. Anna
  has advised numerous government departments\, including the Department fo
 r Education\, the Department of Business\, Innovation and Skills and HM Tr
 easury. She provided advice to the Browne Review of Higher Education Fundi
 ng\, the House of Commons Education and Skills Committee investigation of 
 higher education funding\, the House of Lords Economic Affairs Select Comm
 ittee\, as part of their inquiry into education and training opportunities
  for young people\, and Lord Leitch's Review of Skills. Anna is also the e
 conomist member of the NHS Pay Review Body. Recently Professor Vignoles pr
 ovided evidence to the Education Select Committee on the subject of gramma
 r schools in the context of performance\, access and social mobility.
LOCATION:GR04\, English Faculty Building\, 9 West Road\, Sidgwick Site
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