The landscape of higher education has undergone change and transformation in recent
years, partly as a result of diversification and massification. However, persistent patterns of …

In the course of educational expansion, student populations have become more diverse.
This paper represents an international literature review on the topic of first-generation …

This paper sets out an argument and approach for moving beyond a primarily arts‐based
conceptualization of cultural capital, as has been the tendency within Bourdieusian …

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 …

Purpose The manuscript reflects on the future of higher education from an emerging country
perspective. The authors specifically answer how new education policies, ranking and …

This book explores higher education, social class and social mobility from the point of view
of those most intimately involved: the undergraduate students. It is based on a project which …

Evidence for Bourdieu's social reproduction theory and its contributions to understanding
educational inequality has been relatively mixed. Critics discount the usefulness of core …

The marketisation of higher education is a growing worldwide trend. Increasingly, market
steering is replacing or supplementing government steering. Tuition fees are being …

Drawing upon Bourdieu's theories of social and cultural capital, a number of studies of the
higher education environment have indicated that students who are first-in-family to come to …

Low participation rates in the study of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
(STEM) post-16 are a matter of international concern. Existing evidence suggests children's …