Table 1 shows how UKCAT, TSS and interview scores (all standardiased as z-scores) were patterned according to gender, age, ethnicity, deprivation, parental higher education, school higher education participation and graduate status.
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Small differences were observed between vocational education schools and higher education schools.
Vocational education schools and mixed schools were compared with the higher education schools.
Vocational education schools had fewer facilities at and around the school property to be physical than the higher education schools.
In particular the vocational education schools expected that the attention paid to overweight prevention would increase (64%, n = 137) compared to higher education schools (49%, n = 32).
Vocational educational schools were significantly less likely to have forbidden the sale of certain unhealthy foods in the canteen than higher education schools.
Compared to vocational education schools higher education schools indicated more often that the students at their schools were less often overweight than the 12 to 18 year old children in the general population.
The school environment of vocational education schools looked more obesogenic than higher education schools, because the content of the vending machines was less favourable at vocational education schools and there were fewer facilities for the students to be physically active.
However, because the current situation at vocational education school appeared to be less favourable than the situation at higher education schools we have no reasons to believe that the vocational education schools gave social desirable answers.
Education: categorized as high education – secondary school graduation or more; low education – less than secondary school graduation.
