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Widening Participation in Higher Education

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  • © 2012

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Editors:
  1. Tamsin Hinton-Smith

    1. University of Sussex, UK

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Part of the book series: Issues in Higher Education (IHIGHER)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  4. Non-Traditional Students’ Experiences in Higher Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. Choosing a Student Lifestyle? Questions of Taste, Cultural Capital and Gaining a Graduate Job

      • Mary Stuart, Catherine Lido, Jessica Morgan
      Pages 129-145

    3. Transformation or Trauma: The Transition to Higher Education of Non-Traditional Students

      • Lynda Measor, Paula Wilcox, Philip Frame
      Pages 146-162

    4. Non-Traditional Adult Students: Access, Dropout, Retention and Developing a Learner Identity

      • Barbara Merrill
      Pages 163-177

    5. The Importance of Social Support Structures for Retention and Success

      • John Field, Natalie Morgan-Klein
      Pages 178-193
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About this book

This collection offers an authoritative, up-to-date commentary on the challenges facing higher education today across both the UK and internationally. The book charts the impact of global economic trends and recent policy developments for students, academics, providers and changing course provision.

Reviews

"This book is an engaging and ambitious book that provides both an historical and a current perspective on widening participation issues. The ambition of the book means that the reader jumps quickly through topics, from fair access to drop out, from gender to ethnicity, from England to Ghana, but this broad perspective does mean that it informs the reader on most of the major widening participation debates in recent years." - Anna Vignoles, British Journal of Educational Studies

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Sussex, UK

    Tamsin Hinton-Smith

About the editor

CAROLINE BERGGREN Research Fellow at the Department of Education and Special Education, University of Gothenburg, Sweden CHRISTINA CLIFFORDSON Professor in Education at University West, Sweden MIRIAM DAVID Professor Emerita of Sociology of education at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK SARAH EARL-NOVELL Research Associate at UC Berkeley's Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE), USA JOHN FIELD Professor in the School of Education, University of Stirling, UK PHILIP FRAME Principal Lecturer in Organisational Development in the Human Resource Management Department of Middlesex University Business School, UK CATHERINE LIDO Programme Leader of the Psychology Subject Group at the University of West London, UK ANNE MACLACHLAN Senior Researcher at the Center for Studies in Higher Education at the University of California at Berkeley, USA LYNDA MEASOR Reader in Applied Social Sciences in the School of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Brighton, UK BARBARA MERRILL Reader in Lifelong Learning in the Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Warwick, UK MARIE-PIERRE MOPREAU Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bedfordshire, UK JESSICA MORGAN Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology and Counselling at the University of Greenwich, UK NATALIE MORGAN-KLEIN Research Fellow in the School of Education, University of Stirling, UK LOUISE MORLEY Professor of Education and Director of the Centre for Higher Education and Equity Research (CHEER) at the University of Sussex, UK M. TERESA PADILLA-CARMONA Senior Lecturer in the Department of Research and Assessment Methods in Education, University of Seville, Spain MARY STUART Professor of Higher Education Studies at the University of Lincoln, UK YVETTE TAYLOR Professor in Social and Policy Studies and Head of the Weeks Centre, London South Bank University, UK PAULA WILCOX Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Brighton, UK RUTH WOODFIELD Reader in Sociology at the University of Sussex, UK ALAN WOODLEY was for many years a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University, UK MANTZ YORKE Visiting Professor in the Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University, UK

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