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| Tekijä: | Adnett, N. Slack, K. |
| Otsikko: | Are there economic incentives for non-traditional students to enter HE? The labour market as a barrier to widening participation |
| Lehti: | Higher education quarterly
2007 : JAN, VOL. 61:1, p. 23-36 |
| Asiasana: | higher education universities students United Kingdom |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | In the U.K, the gap btw. rich and poor in terms of participation in higher education (HE) has widened since the 1970s. This study explores if the labour market fails to provide sufficient incentives for potential entrants from less advantaged backgrounds (here as: disadv-bckgrds.) to enter HE. Most studies of the rewards from participating in HE in the U.K. suggest the rates of returns (as: r-of-rets.) to be sufficiently high to provide clear economic incentives to participate. However, until recently, most studies generated estimates of average r-of-rets. to graduation (as: grd.), which could overestimate returns to marginal entrants, especially those from disadv-bckgrds. Examined are methodological problems faced by more targeted studies of r-of-rets. to grd., reviewing their key findings. |
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