Entry to higher education
Curriculum differentiation and social inequality in higher education entry in Scotland and Ireland
... Previous research has often neglected the role of subject choice in shaping social class differentiation in entry to higher education. Our paper aimed to provide new evidence on the role of ...
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School subject choices and social class differences in entry to higher education : comparing Scotland and Ireland
... to higher education is largely determined by grades in the Leaving Certificate ...enter higher education directly, only indirectly through further education (Post Leaving Certificate) ...
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The effects of work experience during higher education on labour market entry : learning by doing or an entry ticket?
... from higher education often enter the labour market with a considerable amount of work ...why education pays ...to higher chances for entering a favourable class position or to higher ...
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Barriers to higher education entry – a Scottish rural perspective
... accessing Higher Education (HE) for pupils living in some Scottish rural communities in Argyll & Bute, Highland, Eilean Siar (Western Isles), Orkney Islands and Shetland ...HE entry from people ...
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Young people's entry into higher education: quantifying influential factors
... level education by young people from these social groups are only partially explained by their parent’s occupational class ...of entry into higher education will have to embrace a more ...
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Knowing the ‘unknowns’: Investigating the students whose social class is not known at entry to higher education
... Looking forwards, Aimhigher and other practitioners are now tasked by government with targeting areas of ingrained, inter-generational and multifaceted deprivation (Raphael Reed, Gates and Last 2007; HEFCE 2007; Harrison ...
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Student Retention in UK Higher Education: Exploring the Link between Entry Grades and Attrition Trends
... Based on these findings, a number of practical solutions to facilitate better retention could be proposed. Firstly, the induction period is critical. Initial impressions matter and since induction is very stressful for ...
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A Review on the Higher Education Entry Qualifications and Entrance Examinations in Indian UG Admissions
... The multilingual question papers of NEET benefitted the students who had their education in the vernacular medium. Provisions have been made for the candidates to review their answer scripts with the help of the ...
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Information literacy in adult returners to Higher Education: student experiences in a university pre-entry course in a UK university
... metacognition in the design and teaching of both the domain content of the course and of information literacy strategies to be used to explore the content further. This would place the matter of information literacy ...
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Barriers to success? : Access entrants and social class processes in Higher Education
... entering higher education may experience some degree of disjunction, this is frequently more intense for those from working-class backgrounds, although factors of age, entry qualification and gender ...
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The Changing Educational Attainment of Graduate Recruits to Major Public Sector Occupations
... the entry requirements for postgraduate ...from higher education going into major public sector occupations that have come from postgraduate courses (see Appendix Figure ...
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The gateways to the professions report
... 7.13 A key concern is whether the introduction of variable fees and the prospect of increased debt will deter people from applying to courses which lead to professional careers. There is no doubt that many people, ...
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Have the changes introduced by the 2004 Higher Education Act made higher education admissions in England wider and fairer?
... their entry (Wainwright ...of higher education or misunderstanding leading to a belief that changes, especially negative ones, had been enacted earlier than ...to higher education and ...
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The Role of Digital, Formative Testing in e-Learning for Mathematics: A Case Study in the Netherlands
... bridging education in the context of the NKBW project for one Dutch ...of higher education, where international students account for more than 70% of the ...school education they have ...
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Higher Education in Asia: Expanding Out, Expanding Up - The Rise of Graduate Education and University Research
... in higher education has experienced explosive growth across Asia over the last 20 years, the result of school participation rates, increasing demand of the society and economy for specialised human ...
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Is forcing them worth the effort? Benefits of mandatory internships for graduates from diverse family backgrounds at labour market entry
... higher education. For instance, a survey among students enrolled in higher education in Germany shows that 55% of the respondents took part in an internship within the last 12 ...delayed ...
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Higher education corruption in the world media: Prevalence, patterns, and forms
... to higher education, including violations in national and international educational tests, violations in entry examinations, and bribery; corruption in research and research grants, including ...
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Whither Scottish Higher Education? [Special Edition: Higher Education]
... Removal of control numbers and the associated clawback arrangements would allow universities to offer places on programmes to home or EU students currently denied access, provided they satisfy entry requirements. ...
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Quality Teaching & Higher Education System in...
... compromised. Higher education in India suffers from several systemic ...Indian higher education, such as – the unwieldy affiliating system, inflexible academic structure, uneven capacity ...
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Utilizing Students’ Personal Technology in Higher Education
... help higher education students to take control of their own learning for the rest of their lives, to facilitate communication and interaction, and to enable them to learn English at their own ...
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