| Description |
xiv, 194 pages ; 24 cm |
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SRHE and Open University Press Imprint |
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SRHE and Open University Press imprint.
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| Contents |
Foreword / Gareth Parry -- Preface / Sue Webb -- 1. Access to Higher Education in the late Twentieth Century: Policy, Power and Discourse / Pat Davies, Jenny Williams and Sue Webb -- 2. The Discourse of Access: The Legitimation of Selectivity / Jenny Williams -- 3. Number Crunching: The Discourse of Statistics / Pat Davies -- 4. Alternative Students? Conceptualizations of Difference / Sue Webb -- 5. Institutional Rhetorics and Realities / Jenny Williams -- 6. Gatekeeping: Inclusionary and Exclusionary Discourses and Practices / Anne Thompson -- 7. Student Voices: Alternative Routes, Alternative Identities / Pat Green and Sue Webb -- 8. Conclusions -- App. 1. Alternative Entry to Higher Education Project: Summary Information -- App. 2. Summary National Data -- The Society for Research into Higher Education |
| Summary |
Who has access to higher education and how are students selected? How is access discussed and whose voices are heard? As we move toward a mass higher education system who are the 'new' students, and why and how are they so labelled? Negotiating Access to Higher Education uses a discourse approach as a framework for making sense of recent changes in access to higher education. It analyses these changes and the debates surrounding them across several levels of policy, practice and experience within the higher education system: the state, higher education agencies, research, institutions, admissions tutors, and students. It examines how discursive struggles over entitlement, selectivity and equity determine who can be a student; what varying understandings inform admissions policies and practices; and the relationship between those policies (and practices) and student needs in a changing system |
| Analysis |
Educational equalization |
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Politics and education |
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Universities and colleges |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Education -- Political aspects -- England.
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Education -- Political aspects -- United States -- England.
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Education -- Political aspects -- Wales.
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Education -- Political aspects -- United States -- Wales.
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Universities and colleges -- England -- Entrance requirements.
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Universities and colleges -- Wales -- Entrance requirements.
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Educational equalization -- England.
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Universities and colleges -- England -- Admission.
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Educational equalization -- Wales.
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Universities and colleges -- Wales -- Admission.
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| Author |
Williams, Jenny, 1938-
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Society for Research into Higher Education.
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| LC no. |
96049719 |
| ISBN |
0335196780 (paperback) |
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0335196799 (cased) |
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