How to Make Higher Education Fair: a practical guide

by: Graeme Atherton

ISBN: 9781858565118

Price: £21.99

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164 pages
244 x 170mm
Due June 2012

This book looks at the interventions set up over the last decade to encourage people from lower socioeconomic groups and ethnic minority backgrounds, children in care, disabled people and older learners to
enter Higher Education, and identifies which worked - and why.

As returns for Higher Education rapidly diminish and funds to support access for under-represented groups dwindle, the arguments for access to HE have to be more sophisticated and the work with underrepresented
groups more efficient, focusing on their specific contexts and needs. The book shows how this is done. It is thus an essential tool for those tasked with widening access to HE at both strategic and operational level in universities, schools, colleges and the voluntary sector.

Author Details

Dr. Graeme Atherton is Head of AccessHE, and Visiting Professor in Higher Education and Social Mobility Practice at London Metropolitan University

Contents

1 - Access for whom? The challenge in identifying ‘the target group’
2 - Delivering access: Striking the balance between competition and collaboration
3 - Making access central to school ‘culture’
4 - ‘Embedding’ widening access in universities: myth or reality?
5 - Fitting access work into Further Education
6 - Working with boys - the new minority
7 - Work-based learning, apprenticeships and the vocational challenge
8 - Getting more looked after children into HE
9 - The ‘progression curriculum’ - fitting schools and universities together
10 - Higher Education Information, Advice and Guidance - filling the gap
11 - The contribution of HE students to widening access
12 - Supporting progression for learners with disabilities
13 - How long does it take to change a mind: Summer schools - life changing or resource draining?
14 - Showing it works - getting evaluation right at the beginning

Looking to the Future

15 - Learning from the rest of the UK
16 - Going global - learning from the rest of the world
17 - Building on the achievements of the 2000s - what have we learned

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