Despite growing concern about mental health problems in university students and
increasing recognition that first‐generation university students (FGS) may face additional …

The higher education regulator for England has set challenging new widening access
targets requiring universities to rethink how merit is judged in admissions. Universities are …

Widening participation has been a vehicle to facilitate access and support towards the
successful completion of university studies for underrepresented groups who are less likely …

This paper provides the first quantitative analysis on 'first in family'(FiF) university graduates
in the UK. Using a nationally representative dataset that covers a recent cohort in England …

This paper evaluates a range of measures commonly used to target and measure the
success of efforts to widen access to higher education. We demonstrate empirically that the …

Over recent decades, national Higher Education sectors across the world have experienced
a gradual process of marketisation. This book offers a new interpretation on why and how …

We examine how first-in-family (FiF) graduates—those whose parents do not have university
degrees—fare in the labor market in England. We find that among women, FiF graduates …

This exploratory descriptive, single-university study (N= 700) joined institutional, external,
and survey data to examine first-year students' food insecurity links to non-cognitive …

The COVID-19 pandemic forced higher education institutions to reexamine their modes of
instruction for the Fall 2020 semester. Some institutions chose to reopen for in-person …

The prevalence of poor mental health in university students is extremely concerning, and
first-generation students (FGSs) may be more vulnerable to mental health problems than …