Access and Participation in Irish Higher Education / by Ted Fleming, Andrew Loxley, Fergal Finnegan.
Fleming, Ted, author.; Loxley, Andrew. author.; Finnegan, Fergal. author.
2017
LB2300-2799.3
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Title Access and Participation in Irish Higher Education / by Ted Fleming, Andrew Loxley, Fergal Finnegan.
Author Fleming, Ted, author.
ISBN 9781137569745
1137569743
9781137569738
DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56974-5
Published London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 326 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number 10.1057/978-1-137-56974-5 doi
Call Number LB2300-2799.3
Dewey Decimal Classification 378.415
Summary This book explores the access and participation issues present within Higher Education in Ireland. It examines policy, pedagogy and practices in relation to widening participation and documents the progress and challenges encountered in furthering the 'access agenda' over the past two decades. Access has become an integral part of how Higher Education understands itself and how it explains the value of what it does for society as a whole. Improving access to education strengthens social cohesion, lessens inequality, guarantees the future vitality of tertiary institutions and ensures economic competitiveness and flexibility in the era of the "Knowledge Based Economy". Offering a coherent, critical account of recent developments in Irish Higher Education and the implications for Irish society as a whole, this book is essential for those involved both in researching the field and in Higher Education itself. .
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Added Author Loxley, Andrew. author.
Finnegan, Fergal. author.
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PART I. Introduction
Chapter 1. Key trends in Irish Higher Education and the Emergence and Development of Access
Chapter 2. Access and Widening Participation: Stories from the Policy Domain
Chapter 3. Routes in: Access Categories, Mechanisms and Processes
Chapter 4. The Purpose of Access: Equality, Social Mobility and the Knowledge Economy
PART II. Research and Policy on Access Students: Experiences, Intersections and Gaps
Chapter 5. Working Class Access to Higher Education: Structures, Experiences and Categories
Chapter 6. Moving to Higher Education: Opportunities and Barriers Experienced by People with Disabilities; Michael Shevlin, Conor Mc Guckin, Sheena Bell and Cristina Devecchi
Chapter 7. Mature Students in Irish HE; Mark Kearns
Chapter 8. The Gender Experiences of Non-Traditional Students in Irish Higher Education; Bernie Grummell and Rose Ryan
Chapter 9. Part-time and Flexible Learning in Irish Higher Education; Nuala Hunt
PART III. Introduction
Chapter 10. Learning and Teaching and Non-Traditional Students in HE
Chapter 11. Retention in Ireland's Higher Education Institutions
Chapter 12. Towards a Conclusion.

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