ERIC Number: EJ1128849
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
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Graduate Views on Access to Higher Education: Is It Really a Case of Pulling up the Ladder?
Webb, Rob; Watson, Duncan; Cook, Steve; Arico, Fabio
Studies in Higher Education, v42 n3 p504-518 2017
Using as a starting point in the recent work of Mountford-Zimdars et al., the authors analyse attitudes towards expanding higher education (HE) opportunities in the UK. The authors propose that the approach of Mountford-Zimdars et al. is flawed not only in its adoption of a multivariate logistic regression but also in its interpretation of results. The authors make a number of adaptations, chief among them being the use of an ordered probit approach and the addition of a time dimension to test for changes in attitudes between 2000 and 2010. The authors find that attitudes towards HE expansion have intensified during the decade 2000-2010, but the authors uncover no evidence that this is due to graduates wanting to "pull up the ladder", as suggested by Mountford-Zimdars et al. The authors argue that evidence of a widespread desire to reduce access to HE can most likely be explained by social congestion theory, internal institutional disaffection and rising tuition fees.
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Access to Education, Higher Education, Equal Education, Student Participation, Expectation, Educational Practices, Student Attitudes, Research Methodology, Replication (Evaluation), Test Reliability, Test Validity, Foreign Countries, Multivariate Analysis, Regression (Statistics)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom
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