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Publikováno v:
Social Inclusion, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 80-89 (2019)
Longitudinal social surveys are widely used to understand which factors enable or constrain access to higher education. One such data resource is the Next Steps survey comprising an initial sample of 16,122 pupils aged 13–14 attending English state
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/4e6a138846194306bff11ca7a350df2c
Publikováno v:
Education Sciences, Vol 5, Iss 4, Pp 306-322 (2015)
In the UK, as elsewhere, the use of ‘contextual’ data has been strongly advocated in order to inform undergraduate admissions decision-making. More than a third of UK universities currently take the socioeconomic or other background context of un
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/fd96179bec7f45e6a5e0e4840e2c0d10
Publikováno v:
Social Sciences, Vol 7, Iss 9, p 151 (2018)
Widening access policy has historically focused on tackling the socioeconomic barriers to university access faced by prospective students from under-represented groups, but increasingly policy makers are seeking to also address the barriers to wider
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/526fe5a87dd74258b3715f693604f1b3
Autor:
Stephen A. Hunt, Vikki Boliver
Publikováno v:
Studies in Higher Education. :1-15
Rethinking merit? The development of more progressive approaches to university admissions in England
Autor:
Vikki Boliver, Mandy Powell
Publikováno v:
Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning. 24:33-55
This paper explores how highly selective universities in England have responded to the Office for Students' call to make faster progress on widening access by 'rethinking how merit is judged in admissions' (OfS 2019: 8). Our analysis of the Access an
Publikováno v:
British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2022, Vol.43(3), pp.349-374 [Peer Reviewed Journal]
This paper evaluates a range of measures commonly used to target and measure the success of efforts to widen access to higher education. We demonstrate empirically that the area-level widening access metrics advocated by England’s Office for Studen
Autor:
Steffen Schindler, Eyal Bar-Haim, Carlo Barone, Jesper Fels Birkelund, Vikki Boliver, Queralt Capsada-Munsech, Jani Erola, Marta Facchini, Yariv Feniger, Laura Heiskala, Estelle Herbaut, Mathieu Ichou, Kristian Bernt Karlson, Corinna Kleinert, David Reimer, Claudia Traini, Moris Triventi, Louis-André Vallet
Publikováno v:
Schindler, S, Bar-Haim, E, Barone, C, Fels Birkelund, J, Boliver, V, Capsada-Munsech, Q, Erola, J, Facchini, M, Feniger, Y, Heiskala, L, Herbaut, E, Ichou, M, Karlson, K B, Kleinert, C, Reimer, D, Traini, C, Triventi, M & Vallet, L A 2023, ' Educational tracking and social inequalities in long-term labor market outcomes : Six countries in comparison ', International Journal of Comparative Sociology . https://doi.org/10.1177/00207152231151390
International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 2023 [Peer Reviewed Journal]
International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 2023 [Peer Reviewed Journal]
In this country-comparative study, we ask to what extent differentiation in secondary education accounts for the association between social origins and social destinations in adult age. We go beyond the widely applied formal definitions of educationa
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::a874ed4860a6bea61614b1a87d541750
https://pure.au.dk/portal/da/publications/educational-tracking-and-social-inequalities-in-longterm-labor-market-outcomes(c41047ee-e831-474a-8b63-459ec6f4ba4f).html
https://pure.au.dk/portal/da/publications/educational-tracking-and-social-inequalities-in-longterm-labor-market-outcomes(c41047ee-e831-474a-8b63-459ec6f4ba4f).html
Autor:
Vikki Boliver, Mandy Powell
Publikováno v:
Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2023, Vol.27(1), pp.8-15 [Peer Reviewed Journal]
This paper explores how fairness was conceptualised by those responsible for admission to highly selective undergraduate courses at 17 universities in England. Fairness was conceptualised principally with reference to the traditional meritocratic equ
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::47f559a602c28b5b1fdd4e4b1630fa7d
http://dro.dur.ac.uk/36368/
http://dro.dur.ac.uk/36368/
Publikováno v:
Higher Education. 84:85-100
The higher education regulator for England has set challenging new widening access targets requiring universities to rethink how merit is judged in admissions. Universities are being encouraged to move away from the traditional meritocraticequalityof
Publikováno v:
Scottish affairs, 2020, Vol.29(1), pp.82-97 [Peer Reviewed Journal]
The Scottish Government has set ambitious targets for widening access to full-time undergraduate degree programmes. Meeting these targets will be a real challenge, not least because young people from socioeconomically disadvantaged contexts continue