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ERIC Number: EJ143754
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1976
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Mass Higher Education and the Elitist Tradition: The English Experience
Perkin, Harold
Western European Education, 8, 1-2, 11-35, Spr-Sum 76
Focuses on the direct and indirect ways in which the elitist tradition in the English education system has discriminated against students from working class backgrounds. Concludes that mass higher education cannot be achieved through elitist methods. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Disadvantaged, Educational Change, Educational Quality, Enrollment Trends, Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Government Role, Higher Education, Mass Instruction
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Identifiers: England