Access to Higher Education : An Instrument for Fair Societies?
Goastellec, G., & Välimaa, J. (2019). Access to Higher Education : An Instrument for Fair Societies?. Social Inclusion, 7(1), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v7i1.1841
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Access to higher education (HE) has a long history. To offer a view on the current debates and worldwide issues regarding access to HE, this editorial depicts how the control of educational access has historically been used as an instrument
of governance at the interface of two processes: social stratification and the territorialisation of politics. Access to HE
has remained embedded in these large structural processes even though HE has expanded from a highly elitist institution into mass education systems with equity of educational opportunities having become a desirable goal across societies. Analysing these processes helps understand the complex mechanisms producing inequalities in HE today, which are
brought together by the ten articles composing this special issue. Tacking stock of how inequalities in access are produced
in different continents, countries, HE Institutions, applying to different social groups though evolving mechanisms, these
articles document the importance of contrasting methodological and theoretical approaches to produce comprehensive
knowledge on this sensitive issue for democratic societies.
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