How can we widen participation in higher education? The promise of contextualised admissions

Boliver, V.; Gorard, S.; Siddiqui, N.

doi:10.1007/978-94-6351-116-2_6

How can we widen participation in higher education? The promise of contextualised admissions

Boliver, V.; Gorard, S.; Siddiqui, N.

Authors

Professor Vikki Boliver vikki.boliver@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Professor Stephen Gorard s.a.c.gorard@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Professor Nadia Siddiqui nadia.siddiqui@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Contributors

R. Deem
Editor

H. Eggins
Editor

Abstract

Widening participation in higher education has been on the UK policy agenda for more than fifty years. Yet, despite some progress across the UK higher education sector overall (DfE, 2016), students from less socioeconomically advantaged backgrounds remain severely under-represented among entrants to the UK’s most academically selective universities.

Citation

Boliver, V., Gorard, S., & Siddiqui, N. (2017). How can we widen participation in higher education? The promise of contextualised admissions. In R. Deem, & H. Eggins (Eds.), The university as a critical institution? (95-110). Sense Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-116-2_6

Publication Date	Aug 1, 2017
Deposit Date	Feb 27, 2017
Pages	95-110
Series Title	Higher education research in the 21st century
Book Title	The university as a critical institution?
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-116-2_6