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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"widening participation"”.
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Discourses of Widening Participation and Social Inclusion
… policies and initiatives designed to widen participation in post-compulsory learning and notions of social inclusion. Whilst both widening participation and social inclusion can be viewed as distinct policy areas, the focus for this research are the links between the two, the impact that …
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Institutional commitment to widening participation: mission, rhetoric and framing
… (HEIs) and their ‘framing’ of commitment to widening participation. Using elements of Fairclough’s (1995) critical discourse analysis, the thesis analyses the discursive strategies that the HEIs used to position their widening participation work in marketing literature and open day settings, …
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Realising potential? The challenges of widening participation for students, further education and higher education.
… faced as a practitioner involved in developing widening participation initiatives and Foundation Degrees. It consists of an exploration of the value of a Professional Doctorate in enabling researching professionals to develop research in the context of their everyday practice, and how this can …
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Whiteness and exclusion: An ethnography of the racialised discourse of the UK’s Widening Participation agenda
The widening participation policy agenda in higher education – increasing participation for historically underrepresented groups – forms part of a broader picture of local and global transformations in higher education. In the UK, the focus on widening participation grew in momentum under the New …
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Access policy and practice in further and higher education: investigating “success” as access turns into widening participation
The policy shift to widen participation in recent years has emerged using language associated with radical, practitioner-led discourses on post compulsory education and training (PCET) of the 1970s and 80s and even from earlier periods. This research focuses on the underrepresented student …
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Widening participation in higher education: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the aspirations of young people living in low participation neighbourhoods.
As part of the policy of widening participation, higher education institutions are required to provide effective, targeted outreach programmes to raise the aspirations of certain groups of young people to aspire to higher education. Whilst research, particularly in the short-term, suggests that …
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Exploring academic perspectives on facilitating study abroad uptake for widening participation students: A pre- and post-1992 university comparative analysis
… over recent years, but while efforts to widen participation at an institutional level through targeted funding and awareness raising campaigns have been widely documented, less is known about what happens to increase uptake at departmental level. Academics can make a positive difference by …
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Widening participation in the church: An ethnographic case study of two Evangelical churches in relation to inclusion of believers with intellectual impairments
… Movement, focusing especially on the issue of widening participation for persons with disabilities, and in particular those with intellectual impairments, within the Evangelical Church. It presents the results of a pioneering empirical case study, conducted at two Evangelical sites over a …
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Outcasts On The Inside? A Case Study Of The Career Aspirations And Experiences Of Widening Participation Students From A Merseyside College Of Higher Education
Firstly, the study is of adult widening participation students in Merseyside, England. Nationally, the economic contribution made by higher education to the economy and the provision of a skilled, adaptable workforce, is a major topic of concern, and even more so in regions such as Merseyside in …
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Widening participation in Higher Education: an investigation of the experiences and views of students, parents, teachers, and higher education staff of a pre-entry programme
This study explored widening participation [WP] in higher education [HE] by investigating the views and experiences of students, their parents, teachers and University staff, in a pre-entry to HE programme.<br/><br/>The research focussed on researching the influence of a Pathway Opportunity …
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Becoming Prospective Medicine Students. A Case Study of Access to Medicine Students’ Descriptions of Their Experiences of a Further Education Course in the UK as Determined Through Narrative Enquiry and Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis
… The thesis contributes to the literature on widening participation in Higher Education (HE), mainly widening participation in medicine. Only the second educational research report into an ‘Access to medicine’ course, the thesis extends understandings of the same course at the same FE college …
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Curricula change in response to the changing governance in higher education
… leading to reforms in Higher Education including widening participation, decreased per capita funding, the centrality of economy and efficiency and a 'lifelong learning' agenda. This thesis also argues, using the theory of integrated institutionalism (Scott, 1995) that the legitimation of these …
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Re-Imagining Higher Popular Education
… a pivotal role in meeting objectives in the widening participation agenda. I argue that HPME in its current form needs urgent re- imaging in order to continue to position itself as a place of forward thinking and inclusive creative education within what is now becoming an increasingly …
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The Ideological Divide: The Influence of Ideology and Group Identity on the Relationship constructed between Elite Universities and Students from Underrepresented Backgrounds
… is best encapsulated through the discourse of widening participation (WP) and thus this research – rather than focusing on specific policy implementation – examines WP as an interaction between these two groups, where the elite university decision-makers exist on one side as the policymakers …
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Issues, successes and coping mechanisms : non-traditional Indian students experience in the context of inclusive practice and internationalisation of higher education in the UK
… study revolve around Internationalisation and Widening Participation. I engaged in a longitudinal study (17 months) from a constructivist perspective. The eclectic nature of the data enabled a multi-dimensional construction of students’ perceptions through academic experiences: focus-group …
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CONCEPTUALISING THE INTERFACE BETWEEN ENGLISH FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION
… and institutional change, including the goal of widening participation.
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An exploration of the role of coaching in supporting non-traditional students in higher education in the UK : the perspectives of the students and their coaches
Widening participation and ensuring fair access to universities for non-traditional students has been a key policy objective for successive governments in the UK since the late 1990’s. In spite of the relative success of policies and strategies to increase and retain the number of non-traditional …
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Cracking The Code: Accreditation Of Prior Experiential Learning And The Discourses Of Higher Education
… in terms of either benefiting students or widening participation. Nor has it taken on the emancipatory role, attributed to it by some of its promoters, of opening up institutions of higher education in terms of the control of knowledge and the recognition of knowledge gained in contexts …
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“It’s life changing, isn’t it?” Foundation year students’ critical evaluation of the value of their course and its impact on their educational journey
… particularly when considering students from a widening participation background. This research built on the literature to challenge the accepted definition of value using a constructionist approach and participatory action research methodology and aims to critically evaluate the value and …
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