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Showing 1 to 20 of 92 for “"access to higher education"”.
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Undocumented Students’ Access to Higher Education in San Francisco, Bay Area
… status influence undocumented students’ ability to access higher education in San Francisco and Bay Area, California?” Even though DACA does not encompass any direct policies regarding access to education, there is a very strong correlation between having DACA status and accessing higher …
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MOOCs and access to higher education by South African underprivileged learners
… Underprivileged South Africans struggle to access higher education for various reasons. Higher education potentially increases opportunities for the underprivileged to improve their socio-economic conditions. Higher education MOOCs have been revolutionary in providing quality higher …
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Essays on equality of opportunity and the access to higher education
This dissertation examines the question of how to improve the access to higher education for students from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds, in order to promote equality of opportunity. In order to do so, experimental evaluation methodology is used to address relevant research questions and …
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The Impact of Counselor on First Generation Student Access to Higher Education
… first generation students face in their quest to access college. A college going culture can encourage students and families to seek the information they need to access higher education, but it is not enough (Martinez, Lewis, & Marquez, 2020). There is a lack of understanding about how …
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Preparing for Uncertainty: Exploring Access to Higher Education in Dzaleka Refugee Camp, Malawi
… and on the continent of Africa in particular, education is imperative to facilitate the ability of displaced persons to voice their concerns and ambitions. Drawing on fieldwork carried out in Dzaleka Refugee camp in Malawi during Summer 2013, this thesis adopts an Afro-centered approach to …
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Doorway to the Competitions of Life: African American Citizenship and Access to Higher Education
… of the 1950s and 1960s such as Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and the Civil Rights Act (1964) relied heavily on the Reconstruction Amendments to launch a revised attack on segregation and racial discrimination producing only limited success. However, more recent court cases and legislative …
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Impact of Administrative Burdens on Undocumented Youth Access to Higher Education and Benefits from In-State Resident Tuition
In the United States, some states and higher education institutions allow undocumented students to pay in-state resident tuition at public colleges and universities. Yet, when undocumented youth apply and seek to qualify for in-state tuition, they find bureaucratic procedures and rules that may …
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Access to higher education as a point of transition for mature students, an experience by which they are transformed
This thesis explores Access to Higher Education (Access) as a site of transition and a transformative experience for mature students studying in Further Education (FE) and interrogates how widening participation policy discourse for under-represented groups, posits mature students’ identity, as one …
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Can e-governance aid young people in indigent communities gain access to higher education: Analysis from an action-research project in OR Tambo District
The central theme of this thesis is to establish the effectiveness and the role that ICTs have in improving the livelihood of people in rural areas. Its intent is to demonstrate how the use of ICTs, in particular via the e-government approach can help to alleviate unemployment and poverty by …
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Maintaining the Segregated City?: Exploring the College Planning Experiences of Kansas City’s Urban Students of Color and the Implications on Their Access to Higher Education
… planning guidance services in the college trajectories of central city students of color. It is projected that by 2018, most jobs will require some postsecondary training beyond high school, placing almost 60 million Americans at risk of being locked out of the middle class because of limited …
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Legislative Intent, Program Implementation, and Higher Education Policy: The Case of Title Iii of The 1965 Higher Education Act
The Higher Education Act (HEA) of 1965 moved the federal government toward a new level of equal educational opportunity in higher education. In addition to student aid, direct institutional aid was viewed as an appropriate vehicle for the pursuit of equal educational opportunity. Title III of the …
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Support for Higher Education: Perceptions of Selected University Administrators and Legislators in Tennessee
… the perceptions of selected university administrators and legislators concerning levels of support for Tennessee public higher education. The purpose of the study was to gain a greater understanding among the various constituents as to the needs and restraints facing higher education funding. The …
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Disability Resources for Students (DRS) Services Utilization Among School of Public Health Students
… University students with disabilities have more access to higher education yet significant barriers to full utilization of accommodations exist. We used a survey methodology to assess University of Washington Public Health student opinions of student disability services on campus. I found …
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Three essays on the economics of education
… three chapters that study the Brazilian higher educational system and determines the barriers to acquiring higher education in the country. Below are the individual abstracts for each chapter. Chapter 1: Rural and urban schools' performance in Brazil and its impact on access to higher …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… should play in providing and financing education. The first chapter estimates the economic incidence of need-based student aid, one tool intended to ameliorate credit constraints in the market for higher education. The second chapter examines whether government programs providing support …
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Becoming Somebody - Learning Identities and Trajectories for Students in a Protracted Refugee Situation
Research on education for students with refugee backgrounds has extended understanding of learning experiences for students in resettlement countries but is still lacking in protracted refugee situations (PRS) such as Malaysia. Although structural barriers to access, particularly for higher …
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How postgraduate students at University of the Western Cape experienced and coped with the COVID-19 pandemic: A biographical exploration
The right of access to higher education in South Africa is enshrined in the country’s Constitution. Access to higher education has been a key issue on the national political agenda since the advent of democracy in South Africa. Prior to 1994, access to tertiary education in South Africa was divided …
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Factors Affecting Recogntion of Expriential Learning in Nepal
Access to opportunities for better life through education and training has been in debate among stakeholders of education and social scientists for a long time. This study has attempted to understand how recognition of individuals' prior experiential learning might be instrumental to widen the …
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