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Higher Education in Scotland and the UK (eBook, PDF)

Diverging or Converging Systems?

Redaktion: Riddell, Sheila; Minty, Sarah; Weedon, Elisabet

Beschreibung

This study of higher education policy across Scotland and the rest of the UK reveals some uncomfortable truths. The rapid growth of the higher education across the UK has led to the inclusion of more students from socially disadvantaged backgrounds, but institutional hierarchies have remained intact. Despite political rhetoric surrounding free higher education in Scotland, the system has failed to produce more egalitarian outcomes compared with the rest of the UK. However, the policy has become very difficult to challenge and is likely to survive for some time. Universities in Scotland have flourished over the past decade, but the fact that their funding has been prioritised over that of schools and colleges has had some unwelcome consequences. School attainment is the most important factor affecting university participation, so improving the educational outcomes of pupils from poorer backgrounds would involve channeling more resources into schools and colleges. The devolution settlement is currently under intense discussion and constitutional arrangements will undoubtedly continue to change. However, with higher education systems increasingly interlinked, not only within the UK but internationally, policy approaches based on the permanence and inviolability of national boundaries are no longer tenable.

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Autor

Sheila Riddell is Director of the Centre for Research in Education Inclusion and Diversity at the Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh. She previously worked as Director of the Strathclyde Centre for Disability Research, University of Glasgow. Her research interests are in the broad field of equality and social inclusion, with particular reference to gender, social class and disability in the fields of education, training, employment and social care. She is the co-author of Resolving Disputes about Special Educational Needs: A Comparative Perspective on Special Educational Needs, Ashgate 2011. From the APF Sheila Riddell is Director of the Centre for Research in Education Inclusion and Diversity at the University of Edinburgh (www.creid.ed.ac.uk) and was previously Director of the Strathclyde Centre for Disability Research at the University of Glasgow. Her work explores themes of social justice and equality across a range of policy fields including education, social care and employment. Elisabet Weedon is Deputy Director and a Senior Research Fellow of the Centre for Research in Education Inclusion and Diversity at the Moray House School of Education University of Edinburgh. Her main research interests are in the area of further and higher education, equality and social justice in education. She has worked on a range of research projects including studies of lifelong learning across Europe, disabled students in higher education and workplace learning. Sarah Minty is a Research Fellow at CREID, Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh. She has particular interests in social justice and policy evaluation and has undertaken research in the school, vocational and higher education sectors. Sarah is currently working on a number of projects relating to higher education funding and access, and exploring how student finance affects young people's higher education choices.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474404594
• Artikelnr.: 44755258