Higher Education and Social Inequalities : University Admissions, Experiences, and Outcomes
Waller, Richard
Higher Education and Social Inequalities : University Admissions, Experiences, and Outcomes By Richard Waller, Nicola Ingram and Michael R.M. Ward - New York ; Routledge 2018 - xxii, 348 pages ; 24 cm.
Table of Contents
Introduction: setting the scene Richard Waller, Nicola Ingram, and Michael R.M. Ward
Part I: Getting in: higher education access and participation
1. Admissions, adaptations and anxieties: social class inside and outside the elite university Susan Coulson, Lisa Garforth, Geoff Payne, and Emily Wastell
2. Struggling for selfhood: Non-traditional mature students’ critical perspectives on access to higher education courses in England Hugh Busher and Nalita James
3. How meritocratic is admission to highly selective UK universities? Vikki Boliver
4. Patterns of participation in a period of change: social trends in English higher education from 2000 to 2016 Neil Harrison
Part II: Getting on: classed experiences of higher education
5. A tale of two universities: class work in the field of higher education Diane Reay
6. How to win at being a student Matthew Cheeseman
7. Social class, ethnicity and the process of 'Fitting in' Berenice Scandone
8. The 'Jack Wills Brigade': brands, embodiment, and class identities in higher education Vicky Mountford
Part 3: Getting out: social class and graduate destinations
9. Higher education and the myths of graduate employability Gerbrand Tholen and Phillip Brown
10. A glass half full? Social class and access to postgraduate study Paul Wakeling
11. Participation in paid and unpaid internships among creative and communications graduates: does class advantage play a part? Wil Hunt and Peter Scott
12. Gendered and classed graduate transitions to work: how the unequal playing field is constructed, maintained, and experienced Harriet Bradley and Richard Waller
Conclusion: social class, participation, and the marketised university David James
9781138351998
Education, Secondary -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
Universities and colleges -- Great Britain -- Admission.
378.00941 / WAL.H
Higher Education and Social Inequalities : University Admissions, Experiences, and Outcomes By Richard Waller, Nicola Ingram and Michael R.M. Ward - New York ; Routledge 2018 - xxii, 348 pages ; 24 cm.
Table of Contents
Introduction: setting the scene Richard Waller, Nicola Ingram, and Michael R.M. Ward
Part I: Getting in: higher education access and participation
1. Admissions, adaptations and anxieties: social class inside and outside the elite university Susan Coulson, Lisa Garforth, Geoff Payne, and Emily Wastell
2. Struggling for selfhood: Non-traditional mature students’ critical perspectives on access to higher education courses in England Hugh Busher and Nalita James
3. How meritocratic is admission to highly selective UK universities? Vikki Boliver
4. Patterns of participation in a period of change: social trends in English higher education from 2000 to 2016 Neil Harrison
Part II: Getting on: classed experiences of higher education
5. A tale of two universities: class work in the field of higher education Diane Reay
6. How to win at being a student Matthew Cheeseman
7. Social class, ethnicity and the process of 'Fitting in' Berenice Scandone
8. The 'Jack Wills Brigade': brands, embodiment, and class identities in higher education Vicky Mountford
Part 3: Getting out: social class and graduate destinations
9. Higher education and the myths of graduate employability Gerbrand Tholen and Phillip Brown
10. A glass half full? Social class and access to postgraduate study Paul Wakeling
11. Participation in paid and unpaid internships among creative and communications graduates: does class advantage play a part? Wil Hunt and Peter Scott
12. Gendered and classed graduate transitions to work: how the unequal playing field is constructed, maintained, and experienced Harriet Bradley and Richard Waller
Conclusion: social class, participation, and the marketised university David James
9781138351998
Education, Secondary -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
Universities and colleges -- Great Britain -- Admission.
378.00941 / WAL.H
