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 Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781800430518
DOI10.1108/9781800430495
Physical Description1 online resource (284 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.