Tables of contents

Effects of in-class variation and student rank on the probability of withdrawal: cross-section and time-series analysis for UK university students

Wiji Arulampalam, Robin A Naylor, Jenny P Smith

251 

Differences between public and private institutions of higher education in the enrolment of transfer students 

John J Cheslock

263 

Training determinants and productivity impact of training in China: a case of Shanghai  

Ying Chu Ng

275 

Academic choice behaviour of high school students: economic rationale and empirical evidence

Joachim Zietz, Prathibha Joshi

297 

Grade inflation and school competition: an empirical analysis based on the Swedish upper secondary schools 

Christina Wikstrom, Magnus Wikstrom

309 

Adjusting teacher salaries for the cost of living: the effect on salary comparisons and policy conclusions 

Christiana Stoddard

323 

Gender differences in employment and earnings in science and engineering in the US 

John W Graham, Steven A Smith

341 

The dubious utility of the value-added concept in higher education: the case of accounting 

James A Yunker

355 

On the making and taking of professionalism in the further education workplace 

Denis Gleeson, Jennifer Davies, Eunice Wheeler

445 

Choice without markets: homeschooling in the context of private education 

Janice Aurini, Scott Davies

461 

Conditions of domination: reflections on harms generated by the British state education system 

Andrea Beckmann, Charlie Cooper

475 

Concrete and classrooms: how schools shape educational research 

Louisa Allen

491 

La noblesse d'état anglaise? Social class and progression to postgraduate study   

Paul Wakeling

505 

Bifurcated commitment, priorities, and social contagion: the dynamics and correlates of volunteering within a university student population 

Lesley Hustinx, Tim Vanhove, Anja Declercq, Koen Hermans, Frans Lammertyn

523 

Review symposium

Equality: from theory to action 

Tuula Gordon, Kevin Brain, Ivan Reid, Kari Dehli

539 

Extended review

Discursive shifts: the Labour party, economic relations and social justice 

James Avis

547 

Review essay

Access and widening participation 

Penny Jane Burke

555 

Erratum

563

Articles

Imagining instructions: mental practice in highly cognitive domains

Paul Ginns

128 

State differences in achievement among secondary school students in Australia

Gary N Marks, John Creswell

141 

Educational accountability and students with a disability in Australia 

Ian Dempsey, Robert Conway

152 

Indigenous students and Vocational Education and Training in Schools: ladder of opportunity or corrugated ceiling? 

Sue Helme

169 

You don't bring me flowers anymore: a fresh look at the vexed issue of teacher status 

Suzanne Rice

182 

Good teachers know where to scratch when learners get itchy: Korean learners' views of native-speaking teachers of English 

Song-Ae Han

197 

'Silky, soft and otherwise suspect': doctoral education as risky business

Erica McWilliam, Alan Lawson, Terry Evans, Peter G Taylor

214 

Book review

Internationalising Higher Education: Critical Explorations of Pedagogy and Policy by Peter Ninnes and Meeri Hellsten (eds)

Brian D Denman

228 

Lesson study: a means for Elementary teachers to develop the knowledge of mathematics needed for reform-minded teaching? 

Clea Fernandez

265 

Mathematics teaching in Italy: a cross-cultural video analysis 

Rossella Santagata, Alessandra Barbieri

291 

How informal out-of-school mathematics can help students make sense of formal in-school mathematics: the case of multiplying by decimal numbers 

Cinzia Bonotto

313 

Letter to the Editor

Mathematical thinking and learning 

Bharath Sriraman

345