scholarly journals Compensatory Policies Attending Equality and Inequality in Mexico Educational Practice among Vulnerable Groups in Higher Education

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
René Pedroza Flores ◽  
Guadalupe Villalobos Monroy ◽  
Ana María Reyes Fabela
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Educational Inequality ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Mexican Population ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Governmental Agencies ◽  
Standards Of Living ◽  
And Gender

<p>This paper presents an estimate of the prevalence of social inequality in accessing higher education among vulnerable groups in Mexico. Estimates were determined from statistical data provided by governmental agencies on the level of poverty among the Mexican population. In Mexico, the conditions of poverty and vulnerability while trying to access better standards of living as well as educational inequality continue to grow at an alarming rate. The number of poor (extreme and moderate) and vulnerable people (according to income and social need) increased from 2008 through 2010 dramatically. The number of people in this situation went from 89.9 million to 90.8 million, which represents 80.64% of the total Mexican population. Only 19.36% of the population is not considered poor or vulnerable.</p><p>The access to higher education is not distributed uniformly throughout the Mexican youth since they belong to different social and economic strata: the least developed regions carry the largest share. Consequently, educational opportunities are unequally distributed mainly across age and gender factors. A distribution imbalance is also found with regard to gender throughout the population observed and analyzed: indigenous females have a significantly higher risk of not having access to higher education than males.</p>

Washington View: Lessons from Benjamin Franklin

2019 ◽  
Vol 100 (7) ◽  
pp. 72-73
Author(s):  
Maria Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Social And Emotional Learning ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Benjamin Franklin ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Policy Perspective ◽  
Education Access ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Social And Emotional

Historian Nick Bunker’s Young Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity shows that young Franklin benefited from a childhood with an ambitious and loving family, access to educational opportunities, and free time to explore. Maria Ferguson considers how those lessons might apply to contemporary childhoods. From a policy perspective, Franklin’s childhood depended on strong early childhood education, access to higher education, and social and emotional learning. In all three areas, positive steps are being made, although progress is slow.

scholarly journals Access to Higher Education: An Instrument for Fair Societies?

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gaële Goastellec ◽  
Jussi Välimaa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Mass Education ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Sensitive Issue ◽  
Comprehensive Knowledge

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.

scholarly journals Why public education is unequal: case of Ukrainian rural schools

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-26
Author(s):  
Viktoriia Muliavka
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Rural Area ◽  
Rural Schools ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Educational Inequality ◽  
Economic Capital ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
The Family ◽  
Economic Background

Ukrainian educational system is not able to provide equal access to the university, regardless of children’s socio-economic background. Despite of the anti-discrimination ideas in legislation and in public discourse (with implementation of transparent mechanism of selection in 2004 - External Independent Testing), there are statistically significant differences in the results of EIT (that defines chances to get higher education) between children from rural area and their peers from urban schools (especially from elite ones). The research is based on Bourdieu’s theoretical concept of capitals and seven in-depth interviews with teachers from rural schools in different regions of Ukraine. Based on the findings, the author divides mechanisms of reproduction of educational inequality into four dimensions: economic capital of the school, economic capital of the family, cultural capital of the school and cultural capital of the family. Current educational reforms of secondary and higher education in Ukraine will not improve situation with access to higher education for children from poor social background. Closing of unprofitable universities and schools in rural area, expending the years of studying at school and implementation on funding reallocation based on a competition with financial support only of those, who are more successful, will deepen educational inequality, making accesses to the mechanism of improving socio-economic position even more dependent from socio-economic background.

Higher Education Sector in India: Issues and Imperatives

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 266-286
Author(s):  
P. Arunachalam
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Massive Growth ◽  
Equity And Access ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
Education In India ◽  
High Standards ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The One

Higher education in India is undergoing rapid changes. The challenges ahead are multifaceted and multidimensional. Though the data show a massive growth in the number of students' enrollment in colleges/universities, holistic view reveals that still only a meager of the total population has access to higher education. Globalization and privatization are imposing new challenges but the nations are still entangled in solving the basic problems of accessibility to higher education for all. In the wake of the transition from elitist to mass education, universities worldwide are under pressure to enhance access and equity, on the one hand, and to maintain high standards of quality and excellence, on the other. Today the notion of equity not only implies greater access to higher education, but also opportunities for progress. In recent debates on higher education, the notions of equity and access go beyond minority to diversity. Affirmative action, too, has become race-exclusive and gender-neutral.

scholarly journals Perceptions of Syrian Student Refugees towards Blended Learning: Implications for Higher Education Institutions

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (01) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Naima Ahmad Al-Husban ◽  
Sameera Shorman
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Open University ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Academic Goals ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
And Gender

This study investigates the Syrian refugees ' perceptions of blended learning (BL) at Arab Open University in Jordan as well as the effects of age and gender on participants' perceptions. A questionnaire was used to collect data from 93 Syrian refugees. Results revealed that the Syrian refugees have positive perceptions of the BL approach, and they are satisfied with it as it plays a transformative role in achieving their academic goals without negatively affecting their work and family affairs. Results also revealed there were no significant differences in participants' perceptions of BL attributed to gender, but age had a significance differences, that is, older participants view BL favorably. The current study also investigated the challenges that refugees face when experiencing BL. Based on the results, it is recommended to expand the use of BL approaches, especially for vulnerable groups like refugees while taking into consideration the challenges they stated. Further research should be conducted to investigate other variables that affect participants' perceptions like achievement, and majors.

scholarly journals Acesso à Educação Superior: O ProUni em foco

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Vera Lucia Felicetti ◽  
Alberto F. Cabrera
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Extrinsic Factors ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Intrinsic Factors ◽  
Baseline Characteristics ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
The University ◽  
Education In Brazil

The focus of this article is the access to Higher Education in Brazil and the University for All Program (ProUni). The research aimed to understand if ProUni is complying with its objective of creating opportunities to students from vulnerable groups for accessing Higher Education, and if there are differences in the baseline characteristics of ProUni graduates and non-ProUni graduates when admitted in a Higher Education. Using a quantitative approach with explanatory goal, data were analyzed via descriptive and inference statistics. Survey participants included 57 ProUni and 140 non-ProUni graduates; all were already Higher Education graduates from a non-profit institution in Southern Brazil and had accessed this level of education in 2005. The results show that ProUni provided access to Higher Education to a younger group of students than the non-ProUni group. The ProUni group also contained a larger number of women and a higher proportion of non-whites than the other group. Among ProUni scholarships, 12.28% had a per capita income higher monthly to three minimum wages and had a higher probability of choosing a licentiate/undergraduate degree. The graduates of the non-ProUni group tended to be more motivated by intrinsic factors, while the ProUni group is motivated by extrinsic factors when choosing courses.

Trends by Social Class and Gender in Access to Higher Education in Britain

1993 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muriel Egerton ◽  
A. H. Halsey
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
And Gender
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