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Ever-expanding university? Social and ethnic inequality in education
- Abstract:
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Seen in a historical perspective, there has always been a tension between the view that higher education should be expanded, and the view that it should be kept to a limited group of outstanding talents. In many countries, there has been a massive change toward support for the expansionist view, most recently during the 1990s and onward, where politicians in England and Sweden have gone so far as to claim that at least half of a cohort should pursue tertiary-level education. It is likely that...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Pages:
- 157-170
- Series:
- International Policy Exchange Series
- Host title:
- University Adaptation in Difficult Economic Times
- Chapter number:
- 9
- Publication date:
- 2014-05-29
- Source identifiers:
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604480
- ISBN-10:
- 0199989397
- ISBN-13:
- 9780199989393
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- Deposit date:
- 2016-02-16
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- Oxford University Press
- Copyright date:
- 2014
- Notes:
- Copyright © Oxford University Press 2014. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Oxford University Press at: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/university-adaptation-in-difficult-economic-times-9780199989393]
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