'educational mobility' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is the concept of being able to move between different educational contexts or institutions, and has become increasingly important as the number of people with access to higher education has increased. For example, you could say: "The increased educational mobility of the past decade has allowed more people to pursue higher level qualifications than ever before."
Albrecht SS, Gordon-Larsen P. Socioeconomic gradients in body mass index (BMI) in US immigrants during the transition to adulthood: examining the roles of parental education and intergenerational educational mobility.
Thus, in theory, the degree of intergeneration transmission is an increasing function of the productivity of educational attainments, the returns to education (p) and the persistence in intergenerational inheritance of skills and other relevant characteristics, while more progressivity of public investment in education increases intergenerational educational mobility.
All of their respondents originate from low socioeconomic family backgrounds but have achieved upward educational mobility and completed higher education in the Netherlands.
Figure 8 also shows the correlation of educational mobility and the returns to primary education.
While self-reported white individuals have on average 0.42 more years of education, there is no difference in the educational mobility between white and non-white individuals (columns 1 and 2).
Measured by income mobility, Denmark is a more mobile society, but not when measured by educational mobility.
From a research perspective, the major challenge, of course, is assessing the ultimate impact of higher education mobility or educational exchanges.
The most exasperating thing for many of my colleagues working in comprehensive schools is that Mr Clegg cannot see this and is content to let the Tories end educational social mobility on the whim of an education minister who knows little about education and cares even less.
According to the OECD, the US has the distinction of being the only industrialised country where the next generation is not going to be better educated than the previous - in a form of educational downward mobility.
Last year the OECD warned that the US was almost the only developed country facing educational "downward mobility", where the younger population is less well educated than the older generation.
The purpose of the Income and Wealth RG is to monitor the ongoing takeoff in income inequality, to better understand its sources, and to analyze its implications for labor market performance, educational attainment, mobility, and more.
