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100 _aWaller, Richard
245 _aHigher Education and Social Inequalities : University Admissions, Experiences, and Outcomes
_cBy Richard Waller, Nicola Ingram and Michael R.M. Ward
260 _bRoutledge
_c2018
_a New York ;
300 _axxii, 348 pages ; 24 cm.
520 _aTable 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
650 _aEducation, Secondary -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
650 _aUniversities and colleges -- Great Britain -- Admission.
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