The Business of widening participation : policy, practice and culture

Widening access to university has become a major component of education policy in the past few decades, particularly in the UK and Europe. The aim is to make a university education more accessible for people from traditionally under-represented backgrounds and to ensure student bodies reflect the di...

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Other Authors: McCaig, Colin, (Editor), Rainford, Jon, (Editor), Squire, Ruth, (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022.
Subjects:
Universities and colleges > Admission.
Inclusive education.
Education > Higher.
"Higher & further education, tertiary education".
elektronické knihy
electronic books
ISBN: 9781800430518
Physical Description: 1 online resource (284 pages)

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245 0 4 |a The Business of widening participation :  |b policy, practice and culture /  |c edited by Colin McCaig (Sheffield Hallam University, UK), Jon Rainford (The Open University, UK), and Ruth Squire (Sheffield Hallam University, UK). 
264 1 |a Bingley, U.K. :  |b Emerald Publishing Limited,  |c 2022. 
264 4 |c ©2022 
300 |a 1 online resource (284 pages) 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Chapter 1. Introduction: The case for a 'business of widening participation' / Colin McCaig, Jon Rainford, and Ruth Squire -- Chapter 2. What drives widening participation policy in the english market? / Colin McCaig and Ruth Squire -- Chapter 3. Business as usual: The enactment of widening participation policy 1992-2021 / John Selby -- Chapter 4. Increasing and widening participation in the market: System differentiation at the institutional/sectoral level / Colin McCaig and Jon Rainford -- Chapter 5. Operationalisation of widening participation in practice / Jon Rainford -- Chapter 6. Third sector organisations: Multi-level enactors of widening participation / Ruth Squire -- Chapter 7. The challenging business of wp evaluation / Julian Crockford -- Chapter 8. The impact of widening participation on further education settings in England / Peter Wolstencroft and Judith Darnell -- Chapter 9. New providers, new challenges / Graeme Slater -- Chapter 10. Conclusion: Evolving markets / where next for the business of WP? / Colin McCaig, Jon Rainford, and Ruth Squire. 
520 |a Widening access to university has become a major component of education policy in the past few decades, particularly in the UK and Europe. The aim is to make a university education more accessible for people from traditionally under-represented backgrounds and to ensure student bodies reflect the diversity of wider society. This key volume presents, for the first time, a critical analysis of the 'business of widening participation' in a marketised context, featuring contributions from some of the major academic and practitioner researchers in the field. Encompassing how WP policy (as a subset of HE policy) is made, enacted and implemented at various stages, also presented are multiple professional and cultural perspectives on how WP is experienced and understood by those enacting policy. Chapter authors explore how the two aspects of the 'business of widening participation' work together to shape how WP is understood and done, as well as the possibilities for doing otherwise by employing a dual usage of the term 'business' in relation to WP. The first, figurative, usage explores the ways in which WP has been drawn into institutional positionality as HE providers differentiate themselves in the market; the second, literal, usage explores the ways in which WP policy is actuated by HE providers (including 'alternative' providers and FE colleges), state actors and third sector and private organisations increasingly engaged in the delivery of WP interventions and as policy stakeholders in this field. Offering both a comprehensive policy history of widening participation in UK higher education and exploration of how that policy has translated into institutional practices in different contexts, this timely work offers new analysis to academics familiar with the field whilst also offering sufficient background to practitioners who may be less familiar with the historical context and academic debates around WP. 
588 0 |a Print version record. 
650 0 |a Universities and colleges  |x Admission. 
650 0 |a Inclusive education. 
650 7 |a Education  |x Higher.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a "Higher & further education, tertiary education".  |2 bicssc 
655 7 |a elektronické knihy  |7 fd186907  |2 czenas 
655 9 |a electronic books  |2 eczenas 
700 1 |a McCaig, Colin,  |e editor. 
700 1 |a Rainford, Jon,  |e editor. 
700 1 |a Squire, Ruth,  |e editor. 
776 0 8 |i Print version:  |z 9781800430501 
776 0 8 |i PDF version:  |z 9781800430495 
856 4 0 |u https://proxy.k.utb.cz/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1108/9781800430495  |y Full text 

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