Access to success and social mobility through higher education : a curate's egg? / edited by Stuart Billingham.

This edited collection illuminates the benefits, drawbacks, challenges, opportunities of the push to widen access to success and social mobility through university and other post-secondary education experiences in the UK and internationally. It examines a range of particular case studies, and addresses issues including the role of part-time study, the experiences of BAME students, increasing access within rural communities, issues faced by those with mental health problems, and the role of employers. There has been some progress in some countries; increased access and enhanced success for some targeted populations, but not for others; and improvements in some regions of particular countries, but not for others. Efforts to improve access to success and social mobility, to strengthen the identification and nurturing of talent in every community and every corner of our societies, is, like the 'curate's egg', only good in parts. This collection demonstrates that educational inequalities, unfairness and injustices still remain.

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Intro; Access to Success and Social Mobility through Higher Education; Contents; Foreword; About the Contributors; 1: Access to Success and Social Mobility Through Higher Education: A Curate's Egg?; Global Contexts; The 'Access' Debate; The WP Discourse; Access to Success: Policy and Practice; Access to Success: Fees and Regulation; Access to Success: Social Mobility; An Alternative Discourse?; Concluding Comments; References; Section A: Aspects of the Contemporary access debate; 2: Access to the Elite; Introduction; Efforts to Date; Slow Progress; Impact of Spending; Focussing on Admissions.

ConclusionReferences; 3: Access to Higher Education in South Africa; Background Information on Access to Higher Education in South Africa; Quality of Education in South Africa; Challenges of Acquiring He in South Africa; Government Funding; Cost of Higher Education; Socio-economic, Class and Racial Inequalities; Efforts Towards Improving Access to He in South Africa; Commission on Higher Education (1995); The National Development Plan 2030; National Student Financial Aid Scheme; The 'Free Education' Initiative; Public-Private Partnership Model; Conclusion; References.

4: Learning Through Life Revisited: The Role of Policy in Enhancing Social Mobility through Access to Part-Time StudyIntroduction; Challenges to Lifelong Learning in Higher Education -- A European View; The Decline of Part-time Study in England -- The Perfect Storm; The Policy Problem; What Does this Mean and What Can be Done?; Conclusion; References; 5: Increasing Access to Tertiary and Higher Education in Rural Communities: Experiences from Tasmania and New Zealand; Introduction; General Issues for Tertiary and He Institutions; Tasmania; Partnerships; Regional Access; Curriculum Design.

New ZealandBay of Plenty Region; Education Partnerships; Institutional Initiatives; Conclusion; References; Section B: Focussing on Student Success and Social Mobility; 6: What Can Social Capital Contribute to Student Success in Higher Education? Perspectives from Students and Institutions; What is Social Capital?; The Implications of Social Capital for Student Success; Students' Perceptions of the Benefit of Social Capital; Connections and Relations; Employability; Personal Development; Quality and Efficiency; Student Success; Benefits for Institutions; Why Does Social Capital Matter in He?

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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