Negotiating access to higher education : the discourse of selectivity and equity / edited by Jenny Williams
- Bib ID:
- 104224
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Buckingham : Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press, 1997
- xiv, 194 pages ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0335196799 (cased)
- 0335196780 (paperback)
- Full contents:
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- Foreword / Gareth Parry
- Preface / Sue Webb
- 1. Access to Higher Education in the late Twentieth Century: Policy, Power and Discourse / Pat Davies, Jenny Williams and Sue Webb
- 2. The Discourse of Access: The Legitimation of Selectivity / Jenny Williams
- 3. Number Crunching: The Discourse of Statistics / Pat Davies
- 4. Alternative Students? Conceptualizations of Difference / Sue Webb
- 5. Institutional Rhetorics and Realities / Jenny Williams
- 6. Gatekeeping: Inclusionary and Exclusionary Discourses and Practices / Anne Thompson
- 7. Student Voices: Alternative Routes, Alternative Identities / Pat Green and Sue Webb
- 8. Conclusions
- App. 1. Alternative Entry to Higher Education Project: Summary Information
- App. 2. Summary National Data
- The Society for Research into Higher Education.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Universities and colleges -- England -- Admission
- Universities and colleges -- Wales -- Admission
- Universities and colleges -- Entrance requirements -- England
- Universities and colleges -- Entrance requirements -- Wales
- Educational equalization -- England
- Educational equalization -- Wales
- Politics and education -- England
- Politics and education -- Wales
- Other authors/contributors:
- Copyright:
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