'Widening Access' to higher education: the reproduction of university hierarchies through policy enactment
'Widening Access' to higher education: the reproduction of university hierarchies through policy enactment
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DOI：
10.1080/02680939.2017.1390165
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发表时间：
2019-01-02
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Wright, Caroline
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作者：
Evans, Ceryn;Rees, Gareth;Wright, Caroline
与其他地方一样，英国高等教育的参与模式几十年来一直以社会不平等为标志。英国政府已经出台了过多的政策和议程，旨在解决这个广泛的社会问题。然而，关于高等教育机构(HEI)如何根据机构的具体情况来解释和“制定”这些政策，人们知之甚少。本文借鉴政策社会学的概念，研究威尔士这一民族国家的高等院校如何制定其政府“扩大高等教育机会”的政策。对一系列“政策参与者”的采访，以及对机构“扩大准入”政策文件的分析，揭示了高等学校在如何解释和交付这一政策议程方面的分歧。这些差异反映了学校特定的背景--不仅反映了它们的内部政治和对它们所录取的学生类型的假设，还反映了它们在一个全球化、市场化的高等教育体系中的兴趣和优先事项。这对英国大学等级制度的复制以及更普遍的社会不平等的影响被提上了议事日程。
Patterns of participation in higher education (HE) in the UK, as elsewhere, have been marked by social inequalities for decades. UK Governments have responded with a plethora of policies and agendas aimed at addressing this broad social issue. However, little is known about how higher education institutions (HEIs) interpret and 'enact' these policies in relation to institution-specific contexts. Drawing on concepts from policy sociology this paper examines how HEIs in one nation state, Wales, enact its Government's policy on 'widening access' to higher education. Interviews with a range of 'policy actors' along with analyses of institutional 'widening access' policy documents, reveal divergences between HEIs in how this policy agenda is interpreted and delivered. These differences reflect institution-specific contexts - not least their internal politics and assumptions about the type of students they admit, but also their interests and priorities in relation to their positions within a global, marketised, HE system. The implications of this for the reproduction of university hierarchies in the UK, as well as social inequalities more generally are brought to the fore.