No one would seriously claim that the rush of applicants for UK university and college places
in summer 2009 represented a new found enthusiasm amongst the nation's youth for higher …

This paper considers the history of access to higher education in England and reviews the
evidence on the progress made in widening participation and ensuring 'fair access' under …

The promise of giving voice to under-represented and marginalized groups has been a
mainstay of emancipatory agendas in educational research. It has been an especially …

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 …

Feminism, Gender and Universities demonstrates the positive and robust impacts that
feminism has had on higher education, through the eyes and in the words of the participants …

This paper contributes a rich picture of how students from refugee backgrounds navigate
their way into and through undergraduate studies in a regional Australian university, paying …

The Australian government has set ambitious targets for increased higher-education
participation of people from low socioeconomic backgrounds. There is, thus, a pressing …

Higher education (HE) has the potential to be transformative: for individuals, local
communities and for the wider society. The extent to which HE succeeds, however, depends …

Feminisation discourses appear to represent nostalgia for patriarchal patterns of
participation and exclusion in higher education. It is curious why this particular melancholic …

Persistent educational, economic and social inequalities perpetuate unequal participation in
higher education for a significant number of students in both developing and developed …