Equity Policies in Global Higher Education : Reducing Inequality and Increasing Participation and Attainment
1st ed. 2022
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Issues in Higher Education
ISBN-10
3030696901
ISBN-13
9783030696900
Edition
1st ed. 2022
Publisher
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of Manufacture
CH
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 25th, 2022
Print length
245 Pages
Weight
470 grams
Dimensions
15.30 x 21.70 x 2.30 cms
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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.
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