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Marketisation, Institutional Stratification and Differentiated Pedagogic Approaches

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Equality and Differentiation in Marketised Higher Education

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Drawing on research with over 350 staff across 11 English higher education institutions this chapter draws attention to how ‘widening participation’ is being, differently, conceptualised within institutional discourses; how concerns, or not, to widen participation relate to pedagogy and how this differs across different types of institution. In particular we evidence how accounts of pedagogy seem to have become detached from considerations of social in/equalities, causing WP issues to be sidelined, and how the processes of marketisation appear to be deflecting resources from WP and related social justice activities. We conclude by arguing that the practices associated with marketisation and differentiation have significant implications for equity and equality.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    There were of course students studying higher education in polytechnic settings but they were not university students.

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    We note that the meanings of WP remain contested and subject to ongoing academic, practitioner and policy debate.

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    Access agreements set out how a higher education provider will sustain or improve access , student success and progression among people from under-represented and disadvantaged groups.

  4. 4.

    The Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE) survey collects information on what all leavers from HE programmes are doing six months after qualifying from their course.

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  1. Sheffield Institute of Education, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK

    Jacqueline Stevenson

  2. Centre for Health Informatics, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

    Pauline Whelan

  3. Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia

    Penny Jane Burke

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  2. Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Colin McCaig

  3. The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

    Jonathan Hughes

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Stevenson, J., Whelan, P., Burke, P.J. (2018). Marketisation, Institutional Stratification and Differentiated Pedagogic Approaches. In: Bowl, M., McCaig, C., Hughes, J. (eds) Equality and Differentiation in Marketised Higher Education. Palgrave Studies in Excellence and Equity in Global Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78313-0_7

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