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Equity Policies in Global Higher Education

This book discusses and analyses global policies and practices aimed at promoting equity in higher education participation and attainment. Although the massification of higher education systems has facilitated the participation of students from deprived backgrounds, socioeconomic inequalities persist in access to the most prestigious institutions and programmes. Privileged students benefit from a number of advantages in the competition for selective and scarce places: access to information, lower aversion to debt, higher expectations, better previous schooling and higher academic achievement. The chapters present a critical analysis of equity policies in different countries – with or without affirmative action policies, within a context of neoliberal policies or within a social democratic model – and the reasons why they have failed to promote equity and fairness, preventing students from achieving their full educational potential.

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Series Title
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Call Number
379.26 EQU e
Publisher
Cham, Switzerland : Springer Nature.,
Collation
xvii, 245p. : ill,
Language
English
ISBN/ISSN
9783030696917
Classification
379.26
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Media Type
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Edition
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Subject(s)
Education
Educational strategies & policy
Politics & government
Higher & further education, tertiary education
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