Friendship and Educational Choice provides a unique insight into how young people go about making decisions about their educational options and the subtle, yet crucial, influence of friends and peers on these processes. It argues that focusing on both the impact of friends on educational decisions and the reciprocal influences that such decisions may exert on young people's friendships helps us to understand the significance and impact of educational choice in the wider lives of young people.

RACHEL BROOKS is a Lecturer in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of Surrey, UK. She has taught for the Open University and the University of Southampton, and worked as a researcher for the National Foundation for Educational Research.