Access and Expansion Post-Massification: Opportunities and Barriers to Further Growth in Higher Education Participation
In: International Studies in Higher Education
In: International Studies in Higher Education Ser.
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Series Editors' Introduction -- 1 Access to Higher Education -- The Public Value of Further Massification of Higher Education -- From Elite to Universal Higher Education: Increasing Diversity -- Further Massification Increases Policy Complexity -- Structure of the Book -- References -- Part I Institutional Diversity -- 2 Access, Equity and the Participation of Disadvantaged Groups -- Three Policy-Theory Debates and Dilemmas -- Expansion and its Effects -- Universal Access as a Concept and Category -- Interventions and Their Reach -- Low Policy and the Passage to Mass Higher Education -- Differential Expansion and Binary Abolition -- Demography, Efficient Expansion and a Widening of Access -- Demand-Led Growth and its Outcomes for Participation -- High Policy and the Drive to Near-Universal Access -- Outreach, Recruitment, and Retention -- A Special Mission for Further Education Colleges -- A 50 Per Cent Participation Target and a New Flagship Qualification -- Fair Admissions, Fee Deregulation, and an Access Regulator -- Progress and Appraisal -- Policies for Widening Participation 1997-2010 -- A Strategy for Access and Student Success in a Public-Private System -- References -- 3 Government Policies as Responses to Increased Demand for Higher Education -- Introduction -- Higher Education Expansion in Growing Asian Economies -- Major Trends in Governments' Responses to Increased Access -- Privatisation of Public Higher Education -- Promotion of Private Higher Education -- Opportunities and Barriers -- Cost-Sharing -- Institutional Diversity -- Autonomy -- Quality and Efficiency -- Private-Public Interfaces on Access: A Public Policy Revisit -- Notes -- References -- 4 Digital Players in an Analogue World -- Introduction.