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Fees Regimes and Widening Access in the Four UK Nations: Are No-Fees Regimes Necessarily More Socially Inclusive?

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The chapter begins with an overview of the funding and support regimes in the different UK jurisdictions. We then examine the range of policy interventions which have been pursued in order to facilitate widening access by pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds. Finally, we examine statistical data to explore the success of the different regimes in attracting students from less advantaged backgrounds into higher education, questioning whether the Scottish no-fees system is more successful than those in other parts of the UK.

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Riddell, S., Weedon, E. (2018). Fees Regimes and Widening Access in the Four UK Nations: Are No-Fees Regimes Necessarily More Socially Inclusive?. In: Shah, M., McKay, J. (eds) Achieving Equity and Quality in Higher Education. Palgrave Studies in Excellence and Equity in Global Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78316-1_12

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