Can mentoring alleviate family disadvantage in adolescence?

04 May 2023, 3:00 pm–4:00 pm

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Join this event to hear Ludger Woessmann discuss what mentoring can do to improve labour-market prospects for adolescents.

This event is free.

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Open to: All
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Cost: Free
Organiser: Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities

cepeo@ucl.ac.uk
Location: LG17 Lecture Theatre

Bentham House

4-8 Endsleigh Gardens

London

WC1H 0EG

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Ludger will discuss an example of a mentoring programme that aims to help school-attending adolescents from disadvantaged families by offering them a university-student mentor. He looks at the effectiveness and impact of this practice.

This event will be particularly useful for researchers, academics, teachers and policy makers.

Please note this is a hybrid event and can be joined both in person and online.

About the Speaker

Professor Ludger Woessmann

Professor of Economics at the University of Munich

He is interested in the determinants of the long-term prosperity of mankind. His research focuses especially on the importance of education for economic prosperity and on the effects of school systems on educational achievement and equality of opportunity.

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