Choices of Degree or Degrees of Choice? Class, `Race' and the Higher Education Choice Process

Abstract

This paper draws on data from an on-going ESRC project on choice of higher education. It focuses primarily on the experiences of non-traditional applicants to higher education. Although these students are not typical of the entire university entry cohort, their narratives raise important issues in relation to race, class and higher education choice processes. These `success stories' reveal important causes for concern as well as reasons for celebration. In particular, their experiences of the choice process are qualitatively different from those of their more privileged middle-class counterparts, highlighting key class and racial differences and inequalities.

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Diane Reay, Jacqueline Davies, MIRIAM E. DAVID, Stephen J. Ball (2001). Choices of Degree or Degrees of Choice? Class, `Race' and the Higher Education Choice Process. Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0038038501008550

@article{diane2001choices,
  title  = {Choices of Degree or Degrees of Choice? Class, `Race' and the Higher Education Choice Process},
  author = {Reay, Diane and Davies, Jacqueline and DAVID, MIRIAM E. and Ball, Stephen J.},
  year   = {2001},
  journal = {Sociology},
  doi    = {10.1017/s0038038501008550}
}

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