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oapen-20.500.12657-533212022-03-16T02:55:24Z Equity Policies in Global Higher Education Tavares, Orlanda Sá, Carla Sin, Cristina Amaral, Alberto equity in higher education access to higher education participation in higher education attainment and retention higher education policy Open Access bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education::JNM Higher & further education, tertiary education bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies & policy bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government 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. This is an open access book. 2022-03-15T07:52:54Z 2022-03-15T07:52:54Z 2022 book ONIX_20220314_9783030696917_35 9783030696917 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/53321 eng Issues in Higher Education application/pdf n/a 978-3-030-69691-7.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-030-69691-7 Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-030-69691-7 10.1007/978-3-030-69691-7 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 4cafffa2-56da-425d-8df1-26ef063a1cbf 9783030696917 Palgrave Macmillan 245 Cham [grantnumber unknown] open access
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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. This is an open access book.
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