Some groups of students—typically those who have suffered because of historical inequality
in society—disproportionately experience psychological barriers to educational success …

A pioneering book that takes us beyond economic debate to show how inequality is
returning us to a past dominated by empires, dynastic elites, and ethnic divisions. The …

The “socioeconomic achievement gap”—the disparity in academic achievement between
students from high-and low-socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds—is well-known in the …

What is a university degree for? What can it offer to students? Is it only about getting a job?
How can we measure the quality of an undergraduate degree? Paul Ashwin shows how …

The transition from higher education to the labour market is considered an important and
uncertain life stage wherein young adults exchange an academic environment for an often …

Employability research has long been and still is criticised for being overly agentic.
Employability is seen as a personal asset tied to the individual. Recently, scholars have …

Over the last 40 years, UK higher education has moved from a publicly funded system to a
mixed publicly/privately funded system regulated as a tuition loans-based consumer market …

Higher education systems in the Chinese civilizational zone (East Asia) are rapidly
improving in quantity and quality, associated with the growth of middle classes and absolute …

A hallmark of recent higher education policy in developed economies is the move towards
quasi-markets involving greater student choice and provider competition, underpinned by …

Previous studies have found that intergenerational income persistence is relatively high in
the United States and Britain, especially as compared to Nordic countries. We compare the …