Which are the 'best' feeder schools in Ireland? Analysing school performance using student third level destination data

Irish Educational Studies

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 107-130

  Borooah, Vani K ^a   Dineen, Donal ^b   Lynch, Nicola ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Decomposition; Feeder schools; Irish Census; Regression models; Third level education

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953677318     PISSN: 03323315     EISSN: 17474965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03323311003779027     Document Type: Article

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