Author name: The Lab's Quarterly

This paper firstly aims to provide a brief history of the paths to access higher education in Italy and to show the persistence of different educational opportunity inequalities in the country. Through an analysis of the available data and a synthesis of the main contributions on the subject, it is explained how in recent years, […]

This paper analyses the data of a wider survey about school guidance. Coherently with the previous researches in the educational field carried out on the basis of bourdieusian perspective, the article examines the influence of teachers’ guidance advises on educational choices made by students attending some lower secondary schools in Rome. The analysis shows that

The aim of this article is to examine the relationship between educational tracks and social class, focusing on the reasoning behind the choices made by young people. The analysis is conducted in Barcelona (Spain), where upper-secondary education starts at 16 years of age and is segmented into two tracks (academic and professional). The analysis employs