The Widening Socio-Economic Gap in UK Higher Education
The Widening Socio-Economic Gap in UK Higher Education
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英国高等教育日益扩大的社会经济差距
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发表时间：
2004
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2.1
通讯作者：
A. Vignoles
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作者：
F. Galindo;Ó. Marcenaro;A. Vignoles
本文提供了最新的经验证据的社会经济差距在高等教育（HE）的参与，为期间跨越引入学费。我们评估差距是否扩大，并询问社会经济差距是否在进入大学时或在教育系统更早的时候出现。我们以两种方式来做这件事。首先，我们考虑贫困社区的离校生上大学的可能性，并分析这种可能性随时间的变化。其次，我们使用更详细的个人层面的数据来模拟高等教育参与的决定因素，重点是随着时间的推移，家庭背景和高等教育参与之间的关系的变化。我们发现，在他参与贫困学生的增长一直非常高，主要是因为它是从这样一个低的基础。然而，在高等教育参与方面，贫富之间的差距在1990年代有所扩大。自1994/1995年以来，与富裕社区的儿童相比，贫困社区的儿童参加高等教育的可能性相对较小。这一趋势在实行学费之前就开始了。高等教育参与率的大部分阶级差异似乎反映了教育系统早期阶段的不平等。
This paper provides up-to-date empirical evidence on the socio-economic gap in higher education (HE) participation, for the period spanning the introduction of tuition fees. We assess whether the gap has widened and ask whether the socio-economic gap emerges on entry into university or much earlier in the education system. We do this in two ways. Firstly we consider the likelihood of going to university for school leavers in poor neighbourhoods and analyse changes in this likelihood over time. Secondly, we use more detailed individual level data to model the determinants of HE participation, focusing on changes in the relationship between family background and HE participation over time. We find that the growth in HE participation amongst poorer students has been remarkably high, mainly because it was starting from such a low base. However, the gap between rich and poor, in terms of HE participation, has widened during the 1990s. Children from poor neighbourhoods have become relatively less likely to participate in HE since 1994/5, as compared to children from richer neighbourhoods. This trend started before the introduction of tuition fees. Much of the class difference in HE participation seems to reflect inequalities at earlier stages of the education system.