The road not taken: the drivers of course selection

The Social Mobility Commission is inviting proposals for research to understand why disadvantaged students tend to cluster in low returning courses. Across both classroom-based technical education and workplace training (i.e. apprenticeships), research suggests that disadvantaged students tend to cluster in course subjects with the lowest wage returns and be dramatically underrepresented in subjects with high returns. This research will build on these findings to understand why. It will attempt to understand what f...