TY  - GEN
AU  - Waller, Richard 
TI  - Higher Education and Social Inequalities : University Admissions, Experiences, and Outcomes
SN  - 9781138351998
U1  - 378.00941 
PY  - 2018///
CY  -  New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Education, Secondary -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
KW  - Universities and colleges -- Great Britain -- Admission
N2  - 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


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