Equity policies in global higher education : reducing inequality and increasing participation and attainment / Orlanda Tavares, Carla Sá, Cristina Sin, Alberto Amaral, editors.
Tavares, Orlanda, editor.; Sá, Carla, editor.; Sin, Cristina, editor.; Amaral, Alberto, editor.
2022
LC213
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Title Equity policies in global higher education : reducing inequality and increasing participation and attainment / Orlanda Tavares, Carla Sá, Cristina Sin, Alberto Amaral, editors.
ISBN 9783030696917 (electronic bk.)
303069691X (electronic bk.)
9783030696900
3030696901
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69691-7
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-69691-7 doi
Call Number LC213
Dewey Decimal Classification 379.26
Summary 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. Orlanda Tavares is a researcher at the Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education(A3ES) and at the Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies (CIPES), Portugal. Carla Sa is Assistant Professor at the University of Minho, Portugal and researcher at the Centre for Research in Economics and Management and the Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies (CIPES), Portugal. Cristina Sin is a researcher at the Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education (A3ES) and at the Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies (CIPES), Portugal. Alberto Amaral is Professor Emeritus at the University of Porto, Portugal and a researcher at the Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies (CIPES), Portugal.
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Added Author Tavares, Orlanda, editor.
Sá, Carla, editor.
Sin, Cristina, editor.
Amaral, Alberto, editor.
Series Issues in higher education (New York, N.Y.)
Available in Other Form Equity policies in global higher education.
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Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2 Equity in Higher Education theoretical background Alberto Amaral
Chapter 3. Access and Inequality in US Higher Education: Policy Issues David Dill
Chapter 4. The persistence of inequity in Brazilian higher education: background data and student performance - Julio Bertolin and Tristan McCowan
Chapter 5. Towards equity: Developing a national approach to improving social justice through higher education in England Liz Thomas
Chapter 6. Undergraduate student funding in England: the challenges ahead Claire Callender
Chapter 7. Data and reflections on access-transition to higher education in Portugal Joao Baptista, Cristina Sin, Orlanda Tavares
Chapter 8. Who is left out? Inequalities in higher education admissions and placements in Portugal - Carla Sa, Orlanda Tavares, Cristina Sin
Chapter 9. An equity paradox? The Northern European case - An equity paradox? The Northern European case Per Olaf Aamodt
Chapter 10. Conclusions Orlanda Tavares, Cristina Sin, Carla Sa.

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