Achieving Equity and Quality in Higher Education

✍ Scribed by Mahsood Shah, Jade McKay

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 381
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Excellence and Equity in Global Education
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Across the world, higher education is witnessing exponential growth in both student participation and types of educational providers. One key phenomenon of this growth is an increase in student diversity: governments are widening access to higher education for students from traditionally underrepresented groups. However, this raises questions about whether this rapid growth may in face compromise academic quality. This book presents case studies of how higher education institutions in diverse countries are maintaining academic excellence while increasing the access and participation of students from historically underrepresented backgrounds. Including case studies spanning four continents, the authors and editors examine whether increasing widening participation positively impacts upon academic quality. This volume will be of interest and value to students and scholars of global higher education, representation and participation in education, and quality in higher education.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxxiv
Leadership for Institutional Change to Promote Diversity and Success (Liz Thomas)....Pages 1-23
Vertically Segregated Higher Education and the Life Course: Comparing Patterns Over 28 Years (Lesley Andres, Ashley Pullman)....Pages 25-49
Supporting Students’ Learning: The Power of the Student–Teacher Relationship (Debra Cureton, Phil Gravestock)....Pages 51-71
Facilitating the Success of Students from Low SES Backgrounds at Regional Universities Through Course Design, Teaching, and Staff Attributes (Marcia Devlin, Jade McKay)....Pages 73-95
A Case Study Using Developmental Education to Raise Equity and Maintain Standards (Michelle Hodara, Di Xu, Julie Petrokubi)....Pages 97-117
Vision 20:20 and Indigenous Health Workforce Development: Institutional Strategies and Initiatives to Attract Underrepresented Students into Elite Courses (Elana Taipapaki Curtis)....Pages 119-142
Social Inclusion or Social Engineering? The Politics and Reality of Widening Access to Medicine in the UK (Kirsty Alexander, Jennifer Cleland)....Pages 143-172
University Strategies to Improve the Academic Success of Disadvantaged Students: Three Experiences in Chile (Oscar Espinoza, Noel McGinn, Luis Eduardo González)....Pages 173-198
Widening Participation in Medicine in the UK (Paul Garrud, Clare Owen)....Pages 199-217
Affirmative Actions as an Instrument to Balance Access to Superior Education in Brazil: The Quotas Policy (Rubens Becak, Luis Felipe Cirino)....Pages 219-233
The Conundrum of Achieving Quality Higher Education in South Africa (Sadhana Manik, Labby Ramrathan)....Pages 235-260
Fees Regimes and Widening Access in the Four UK Nations: Are No-Fees Regimes Necessarily More Socially Inclusive? (Sheila Riddell, Elisabet Weedon)....Pages 261-286
High Status Professions, Their Related Degrees and the Social Construction of ‘Quality’ (Erica Southgate, Susan Grimes, Jarrad Cox)....Pages 287-306
How Can Contextualised Admissions Widen Participation? (Stephen Gorard, Vikki Boliver, Nadia Siddiqui)....Pages 307-326
Governmental Supports for Students in Turkey: Beneficiary Perspective on the Use of Financial and Social Support in Higher Education (Yasar Kondakci, Kadir Beycioglu, Yusuf İkbal Oldac, Hanife Hilal Senay)....Pages 327-348
Back Matter ....Pages 349-356

✦ Subjects

Education; Higher Education; Educational Policy and Politics; Administration, Organization and Leadership; International and Comparative Education; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation