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| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 213 |
| Journal | Education Sciences |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Early online date | 16 Mar 2022 |
| Publication status | Published - Mar 2022 |
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- baccalaureate school, educational federalism, educational inequalities, educational provision, educational structures, educational transition, regional variance, Switzerland, upper‐secondary education
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In: Education Sciences, Vol. 12, No. 3, 213, 03.2022.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Access to Baccalaureate School in Switzerland
T2 - Regional Variance of Institutional Conditions and Its Consequences for Educational Inequalities
AU - Leemann, Regula Julia
AU - Brändli, Andrea Pfeifer
AU - Imdorf, Christian
N1 - Funding Information: This paper is part of the project “Governance of Transitions in the Swiss Education System. A Study on the Political Regulation of Moving from Primary to Lower‐Secondary and from Lower‐Secondary to Upper‐Secondary Education (GovTrans)”, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF‐10001A_188906) 7/2020–6/2024.
PY - 2022/3
Y1 - 2022/3
N2 - In Switzerland, baccalaureate school is still considered to be the royal road to a university education and the elite path for the social reproduction of the upper class. However, cantonal enrollment to baccalaureate school varies widely due to Swiss federalism. There is a recurring debate on whether access to baccalaureate school is fair and equal among pupils who live in different cantons and who are of different social origin. This paper aims to analyze how the institutional conditions of cantons and municipalities impact a pupil’s probability of entering baccalaureate school and how the cantonal provisioning of places in baccalaureate school affects social inequality of access. For our theoretical foundation, we combine concepts of neo-institutionalism with mechanisms of social reproduction in education. Empirically, we analyze national longitudinal register data to model educational transitions from compulsory to baccalaureate school by using logistic regression models. Our results show that institutional structures at the cantonal and municipal levels influence the probability of transition beyond individual pupils’ characteristics. The degree of inequality varies between cantons, depending on the supply of baccalaureate school places. Inequality first increases with an increasing number of places (the scissors effect) and decreases only after the demand of more privileged families for places at baccalaureate school is saturated.
AB - In Switzerland, baccalaureate school is still considered to be the royal road to a university education and the elite path for the social reproduction of the upper class. However, cantonal enrollment to baccalaureate school varies widely due to Swiss federalism. There is a recurring debate on whether access to baccalaureate school is fair and equal among pupils who live in different cantons and who are of different social origin. This paper aims to analyze how the institutional conditions of cantons and municipalities impact a pupil’s probability of entering baccalaureate school and how the cantonal provisioning of places in baccalaureate school affects social inequality of access. For our theoretical foundation, we combine concepts of neo-institutionalism with mechanisms of social reproduction in education. Empirically, we analyze national longitudinal register data to model educational transitions from compulsory to baccalaureate school by using logistic regression models. Our results show that institutional structures at the cantonal and municipal levels influence the probability of transition beyond individual pupils’ characteristics. The degree of inequality varies between cantons, depending on the supply of baccalaureate school places. Inequality first increases with an increasing number of places (the scissors effect) and decreases only after the demand of more privileged families for places at baccalaureate school is saturated.
KW - baccalaureate school
KW - educational federalism
KW - educational inequalities
KW - educational provision
KW - educational structures
KW - educational transition
KW - regional variance
KW - Switzerland
KW - upper‐secondary education
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U2 - 10.3390/educsci12030213
DO - 10.3390/educsci12030213
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85123782615
VL - 12
JO - Education Sciences
JF - Education Sciences
SN - 2227-7102
IS - 3
M1 - 213
ER -