Stratification in higher education: a comparative study

Abstract

In this book, scholars from Western and Eastern Europe, East Asia, Israel, Australia, and the United States assess the links between the mass expansion of higher education and inequality in the national context. Findings were analysed comparatively with each country chapter containing a detailed description of tertiary education and changes and reforms to it over recent decades. Logit regressions of several educational transitions are reported, including eligibility for higher education, entry into higher education, and entry into first-tier higher education. Findings from the research provide evidence of the relationships among institutional expansion, differentiation and privatisation, and the stratification of individual educational opportunity. The chapters are as follows: More inclusion than diversion: expansion, differentiation, and market structure in higher education / Richard Arum, Adam Gamoran, and Yossi Shavit. Part one, 'Diversified systems', contains the chapters: Israel: diversification, expansion, and inequality in higher education / Yossi Shavit, Hanna Ayalon, Svetlana Chachashvili-Bolotin, and Gila Menahem; Japan: educational expansion and inequality in access to higher education / Hiroshi Ishida; South Korea: educational expansion and inequality of opportunity in higher education / Hyunjoon Park; Sweden: why educational expansion is not such a great strategy for equality - theory and evidence / Jan O. Jonsson and Robert Erikson; Taiwan: higher education - expansion and equality of educational opportunity / Shu-Ling Tsai and Yossi Shavit; United States: changes in higher education and social stratification / Josipa Roksa, Eric Grodsky, Richard Arum, and Adam Gamoran. Part two, 'Binary systems', contains: Great Britain: higher education expansion and reform - changing educational inequalities / Sin Yi Cheung and Muriel Egerton; France: mass and class - persisting inequalities in postsecondary education / Pauline Givord and Dominique Goux; Germany: institutional change and inequalities of access in higher education / Karl Ulrich Mayer, Walter Muller, and Reinhard Pollak; The Netherlands: access to higher education - institutional arrangements and inequality of opportunity / Susanne Rijken, Ineke Maas, and Harry B. G. Ganzeboom; Russia: stratification in postsecondary education since the Second World War / Theodore P. Gerber; Switzerland: tertiary education expansion and social inequality / Marlis Buchmann, Stefan Sacchi, Markus Lamprecht, and Hanspeter Stamm. Part three, 'Unitary and other systems', contains: Australia: changes in socioeconomic inequalities in university participation / Gary N. Marks and Julie McMillan; The Czech Republic: structural growth of inequality in access to higher education / Petr Mateju, Blanka Rehakova, and Natalie Simonova; Italy: expansion, reform, and social inequality in higher education / Ettore Recchi.

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