Estimates of the effect of schooling on adult cognitive skills that do not account for school attainment being behaviorally determined are biased upward substantially for adult verbal cognitive skills and make the impact on adult nonverbal cognitive skills appear highly positively significant rather than insignificant.
Factors of lower educational attainment; being separated, widowed, or divorced; and nonemployment have been associated with early natural menopause, whereas Japanese ethnicity is associated with late age at natural menopause (33).
Overall, the gradients tended to be steeper in Asia than Australasia, with the greatest differential between low and high educational attainment being mostly seen in the least well-developed countries that were included in our study: China, Taiwan and Thailand.
In a recent review of nationally representative surveys in nine countries it was found that for women, low educational attainment, being under 25 years of age, having witnessed her father's violence against her mother, living in an urban area, and low socio-economic status were consistently associated with an increased risk of abuse [ 14].
Past research has shown that there are a number of underlying demographic factors associated with increased likelihood of participating in scientific research and these include being female [ 3, 5, 6], of higher socioeconomic status [ 3, 7- 9], higher educational attainment, being employed [ 6], and being married [ 9].
Figures 9 and 10 make very clear that medical school applicants, and particularly medical school acceptances, are a very highly selected academic elite from amongst the entire pool of those applying to university, the modal A level attainment being at the maximum possible score of three As at A level.
In Kent, for example, where grammars still operate, overall educational attainment is lower, even though grammar attainment is significantly higher.
But educational attainment is higher in the younger generations.
That moment of attainment is known as The Singularity.
Educational attainment is plateauing and may begin to decline.
A new school is under discussion, and raising education attainment is also high on the list.
