Equity Policies in Global Higher Education

Reducing Inequality and Increasing Participation and Attainment
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-030-69690-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 245 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 463 g

Reihe: Issues in Higher Education

This book discusses and analyses global policies and practices aimed at promoting equity in higher education participation and attainment. Although the massification of higher education systems has facilitated the participation of students from deprived backgrounds, socioeconomic inequalities persist in access to the most prestigious institutions and programmes. Privileged students benefit from a number of advantages in the competition for selective and scarce places: access to information, lower aversion to debt, higher expectations, better previous schooling and higher academic achievement. The chapters present a critical analysis of equity policies in different countries – with or without affirmative action policies, within a context of neoliberal policies or within a social democratic model – and the reasons why they have failed to promote equity and fairness, preventing students from achieving their full educational potential.

This is an open access book.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tavares, Orlanda

Amaral, Alberto

Sá, Carla

Sin, Cristina

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogische Soziologie, Bildungssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Hochschuldidaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2 Equity in Higher Education – theoretical background – Alberto Amaral.- Chapter 3. Access and Inequality in US Higher Education: Policy Issues – David Dill.- Chapter 4. The persistence of inequity in Brazilian higher education: background data and student performance - Julio Bertolin and Tristan McCowan.- Chapter 5. Towards equity: Developing a national approach to improving social justice through higher education in England – Liz Thomas.- Chapter 6. Undergraduate student funding in England: the challenges ahead – Claire Callender.- Chapter 7. Data and reflections on access-transition to higher education in Portugal – João Baptista, Cristina Sin, Orlanda Tavares.- Chapter 8. Who is left out? Inequalities in higher education admissions and placements in Portugal - Carla Sá, Orlanda Tavares, Cristina Sin.- Chapter 9. An equity paradox? The Northern European case - An equity paradox? The Northern European case – Per Olaf Aamodt.- Chapter 10. Conclusions – Orlanda Tavares, Cristina Sin, Carla Sá.

Über Autor(innen)

Orlanda Tavares is a researcher at the Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education (A3ES) and at the Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies (CIPES), Portugal.

Carla Sá is Assistant Professor at the University of Minho, Portugal and researcher at the Centre for Research in Economics and Management and the Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies (CIPES), Portugal.

Cristina Sin is a researcher at the Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education (A3ES) and at the Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies (CIPES), Portugal.

Alberto Amaral is Professor Emeritus at the University of Porto, Portugal and a researcher at the Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies (CIPES), Portugal.