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The Move to Mass Higher Education in the UK: Many Questions and Some Answers
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Mayhew, Ken; Deer, Cecile; Dua, Mehak – Oxford Review of Education, 2004
This article describes the course and causes of the expansion of higher education in the UK since the 1960s. The number of university students from modest social backgrounds has increased, but they comprise much the same proportion of the university population as they did 40 years ago. Though personal rates of return from higher education are…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Labor Market, Foreign Countries, Enrollment Trends
From Sixth Form to University: Motivation and Transition among High Achieving State-School Language Students
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Macaro, Ernesto; Wingate, Ursula – Oxford Review of Education, 2004
This paper reports on a research project involving a sample of 19 state-educated students in their first year of a German course at Oxford University. The project is one of a number of research studies into widening participation issues funded by the Higher Education Funding Council of England (HEFCE) and the Sutton trust. The paper describes the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Motivation, German, Second Language Learning