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Since the mid-1970s, the higher education system in the UK has massified. Over this period, the government policy drivers for higher education have shifted towards a homogenised rationale, linking higher education to the economic well-being of the country. The massification of higher education has involved a widening of participation from traditional students to new and diverse student cohorts with differing information needs. The increased positioning of students as consumers by higher education means the student choice process has become complex. Drawing on a recently conferred doctorate, this article asks whether the messages sent by institutions about the motivation for undertaking a degree have changed during the recent period of massification of UK higher education. It asks how such changes are reflected, overtly or in coded form, in the institutional pre-entry 'prospectus' documents aimed at students. Taking a discourse-historical approach, the work identifies six periods of discourse change between 1976 and 2013, analysing prospectuses from four case-study institutions of different perceived status. The research finds that the materials homogenise gradually over the period and there is a concordant concealment of the differential status, purpose and offer of the institutions, alongside an increase in the functional importance of the coded signalling power of the differential prestige of undergraduate degrees within the UK. This research's finding that the documents produced by institutions have become increasingly difficult to differentiate highlights equity issues in provision of marketing in terms of widening participation and fair access aims.

1 The Role of Parental Labour in Career Transitions: Introduction -- How This Book Came to Be -- Our Positionality -- Chapter Structure -- Terminology -- References -- 2 Care Experience and Transitions to Higher Education: How Our Understanding of a Particular Cohort's Experience Illuminates Wider Experiences of Disparity in Education -- Introduction -- Bourdieu and the Bachelors' Ball -- OOHC and Care Experience -- Histories of Abuse and Trauma -- Care Experience and Criminal Justice Over-representation -- Data Collection Issues -- Care, Careers, and Education -- Research Design and Methods -- References -- 3 Parenting as a Part of the School Ecosystem -- Introduction -- Parents Becoming Responsibilised and Part of the Schooling System -- Expectations of Parents -- Summary -- References -- 4 The Development of Career-Related Early Intentions in the Home -- Introduction -- Social Reproduction and Career Influences -- How Ideas About Careers Develop -- Career Support -- Expectations -- The Absence of Parental Support -- Role of Parents -- Summary -- References -- 5 Parents' Assumed Role in Higher Education Transition -- Introduction -- Massification of Higher Education -- Transition Awareness -- Higher Education Institutions Marketing to Students -- Populations with Less Likelihood of Support -- Institutional Programmatic Support -- Institutional Support -- Summary -- References -- 6 Attenuated Youth: Support from Parents into Adulthood -- Introduction -- Support Needed in Higher Education -- National and Institutional Policy Support for All Students -- Gaps in Intergovernmental/Agency Collaboration -- Institutional Support in Higher Education -- Summary -- References -- 7 The Responsibilisation of Parental Labour in Education Practice: A Framework for Analysis -- Introduction -- Governmentality and Technologies of the Self -- Neoliberalism and Political Rationalities -- Neoliberalism, Governmentality, and Parenting -- The Parental Role -- The 'Ideal Parent' -- Responsibilisation, Schools, and Parental Labour -- Responsibilisation, Deficit, and Parental Labour -- Parental Involvement in Higher Education -- Goldilocks Zone -- Conclusion -- References -- 8 Conclusion -- Introduction -- Recommendations -- Data Collection -- Systemic Focus on 'Traditional' Students and Deficit Discourse -- Institutional Resourcing and Support -- Future Research -- References -- Appendix A: Participant Pseudonyms -- Appendix B: Interview Schedule.

This study examines the impact of Child Protective Services (CPS) reports made by research study staff on participant retention and discusses human subjects protocols that may minimize either the need to make such reports or the negative impact of reporting on participants and on participant retention. Among 1, 354 primary caregiver-child pairs in the Longitudinal Studies of Child Abuse and Neglect (LONGSCAN) studies, a total of 15 were reported to CPS by study staff. Within this group, rates of study-generated reports and study participation subsequent to having been reported by researchers were examined. There was an overall retention rate of 93% across a minimum of three interview waves in this sample. Reporting research participants to CPS may have little impact on attrition.

This study examines the concordance between adolescent reports of abuse and abuse determinations from Child Protective Service (CPS) agencies. It also compares the utility of adolescent reports of abuse, relative to CPS determinations in predicting adolescent psychological adjustment. The sample included 350 early adolescents, ages 12 to 13 years, who were initially identified prior to age 2 years as being at elevated risk of maltreatment. An Audio-Computer Assisted Self Interview (A-CASI) was used to assess lifetime experiences of physical, sexual, and psychological abuse. The A-CASI interview elicited prevalence rates of abuse 4 to 6 times higher than those found in CPS records. However, 20 of 45 adolescents with CPS determinations of abuse failed to report abuse during the study interview. Adolescent psychological adjustment was more strongly associated with self-reports than with CPS determinations. The implications of these findings are discussed for validity of adolescent self-reports of childhood abuse and for the ongoing debate about disclosure patterns among victims of child sexual abuse.