Good grades and a desk ‘key for university hopes’

Researchers in Croatia found these influences were more important than class size, school, average grades at the school or the wealth of an area. And they say this suggests schemes to raise aspirations should be targeted at an individual rather than school level. The study covered over 1,000 pupils. Researchers from the Institute for Social Research, in Zagreb, asked 1,050 pupils aged 13, 14 and 15 at 23 schools in the city:
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