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Higher Education and Equality of Opportunity

A Review of Findings and Data Sets

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Using Data to Improve Higher Education

Part of the book series: Global Perspectives On Higher Education ((GPHE))

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Amartya Sen (1992), in the prologue of his well appreciated book “Inequality Reexamined,” sets forth the most fundamental question in the study of inequality: “equality of what?” Irrespectively of someone’s ideological predispositions, we can expect that most people will condemn inequality on the grounds of unfairness. Yet, trying to figure out the “proper” concept of inequality is far more elusive.

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  1. Department of Economics and Economics Research Center, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

    Sofia N. Andreou

  2. Economics Research Center, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

    Christos Koutsampelas

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  1. University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

    Maria Eliophotou Menon

  2. Tufts University, Medford, USA

    Dawn Geronimo Terkla

  3. Middlesex University London, UK

    Paul Gibbs

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Andreou, S.N., Koutsampelas, C. (2014). Higher Education and Equality of Opportunity. In: Menon, M.E., Terkla, D.G., Gibbs, P. (eds) Using Data to Improve Higher Education. Global Perspectives On Higher Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-794-0_11

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