Access to success and social mobility through higher education : a curate's egg? /: a curate's egg?. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Stuart Billingham.
• Editors: Billingham, Stuart
• Contents: Foreword; Dianne Willcocks CBE, DL 1. Access to success and social mobility through higher education: A Curate's Egg?; Stuart Billingham Section A Aspects of the contemporary access debate 2. Access to the 'elite' in England; Emile Sundorph, <g id="22" data-gr-id="22">Danail <g id="23" data-gr-id="23">Vasilev <g id="143" data-gr-id="143">and Louis Coiffait 3. Access to higher education in South Africa; Clara Gwatirera 4. Learning through life revisited: the role of policy in enhancing social mobility through access to part-time study; Liz Marr and John Butcher 5. Increasing access to tertiary education in rural communities: experiences from Tasmania and New Zealand; Margaret Noble and Jessica Grant Section B Focusing on student success and social mobility 6. What can social capital contribute to student success in higher education? Perspectives from students and institutions; Helen May and Mark Jones 7. 'So you want to be an academic'? The experiences of Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic Undergraduates in a UK Creative Arts University; Siobhan Clay 8. Students' views of tertiary education as 'access to success': A case study of a multicultural college in Israel; Bruria Schaedel 9. Collective Responsibility and Collaborative Action: Universities and Employers in Pursuit of Social Mobility; Nik Miller Section C Innovations in access to success 10. Students <g id="438" data-gr-id="438">not Patients: Opening-up the university to those with mental health problems; Simon Newton and Nick Rowe 11. Service-learning and academic activism: a review, prospects, and a time for revival?; Tony Wall, Dwight E Giles and Tim Stanton 12. Warming a higher education cold spot: the case of Coventry University in Scarborough; Craig Gaskell and Ian Dunn 13. A teacher´s experience of the transformative pedagogic effect of part-time degree study; Gerard Sharpling and Neil Murray Section D Access to success and social mobility: Thinking big 14. Access to success and social mobility involves everyone! A whole institution approach to widening participation; Liz Thomas 15. Advocating for Access: World Access to Higher Education Day and beyond; Graeme Atherton.
• Publisher Details: Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (185 pages)
• Subjects: 379.2/6; Educational equalization; Social mobility; Minorities -- Education (Higher); Education, Higher -- Social aspects; Universities and colleges -- Admission
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781787439924
• Related ISBNs: 9781787541108
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