This research project explores the relationship between culture and education, in order to inform teachers about the nature of cultural influences, and the effect of these on different stages of students’ education. The particular focus is on examining students’ choices regarding progression from Further Education to Higher Education. Teaching at City and Islington Sixth Form College requires a constant dialogue between a diverse range of
cultures and student experience; this study will address a need to understand factors that affect students’ experience in order to maintain and widen participation in inner city institutions. A small number of students from City
and Islington Sixth Form and University College London will be interviewed and their experiences analysed in a qualitative manner; this will allow discussion of the detailed information students provide. Hence the advantages and disadvantages of students’ educational journeys and their choices regarding progression to Higher Education can be evaluated in the context of their cultural experience, and with reference to the previous body of research in this area. For confidentiality all names in this study have been
changed
