Does the fear of debt constrain choice of university and subject of study?

Callender, Claire; Jackson, Jonathan

doi:10.1080/03075070802211802

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“…More participation in higher education may lead to a scarcity of funding (Barr and Crawford, 1998), especially during a financial crisis. However, the higher education literature shows that debt constraints do not affect the choice of subject (Callender and Jackson, 2008). Thus, we argue that less financial support cannot be responsible for the lower participation of disabled students in accounting higher education.…”

Section: Non-inclusion Of the Disabled In Higher Education Of Accountingmentioning

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Gender inequality and disabled inclusivity in accounting higher education and the accounting profession during financial crises

Lodh

Nandy

2017

Industry and Higher Education

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In this article, the authors find that, during financial crises, the wage gap between female and male accounting professionals declines and gender inequality in higher education is affected. In addition, less support and lower wages for disabled accounting professionals demotivate disabled students in accounting higher education. Because of budget cuts during financial crises, universities limit their support to women and the disabled. The authors consider 104 universities from the database of the United Kingdom’s Higher Education Statistics Agency for 2005–2011. Their theoretical and empirical findings establish that there was a growth in female students and a decline in disabled accounting students during the recent financial crisis. The established link between the higher education and the accounting profession enriches the accounting literature and may help policymakers to identifying better ways of enhancing equality and the inclusion of disabled students in accounting higher education to address inequality and non-inclusivity in the profession, especially during periods of financial crisis.

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Section: Non-inclusion Of the Disabled In Higher Education Of Accountingmentioning

confidence: 85%

Gender inequality and disabled inclusivity in accounting higher education and the accounting profession during financial crises

Lodh

Nandy

2017

Industry and Higher Education

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“…Precisamente sobre los estilos de decisión de venir a la universidad y de elección de carrera, sabemos que los estudiantes de clase trabajadora manifiestan un modo que muestra más aversión al riesgo (Callender y Jackson, 2008). Ponderan especialmente la reducción de costes y por ello trabajabas, si no estudiabas trabajabas, pero ahora es difícil que una persona sin estudios trabaje en algo más o menos… que merezca un poco la pena.…”

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La apuesta universitaria en los jóvenes de clases populares. Entre la promoción social y la falta de horizonte

Langa-Rosado¹

2018

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RESUMENNuestra contribución a este debate se basa en el análisis discursivo de entrevistas de estudiantes de clases populares llevadas a cabo en el curso 2015-16. Buscábamos acercarnos a los modos en que éstos habían afrontado las reformas en las tasas y las becas acaecidas en la universidad desde el 2012, si bien el referente "plan Bolonia" ha emergido en los discursos como otro cambio institucional importante. Hemos identificado una revalorización de la opción universitaria como consecuencia de la crisis de oportunidades laborales. No obstante, las mencionadas reformas han configurado un contexto de mayores constricciones materiales y académicas. En los discursos de los estudiantes constatamos cómo la opción universitaria se percibe ahora como una apuesta menos atractiva por ser más insegura, con nuevos y más inciertos obstáculos, y cuya rentabilidad tampoco está garantizada.Palabras clave: Estudiantes universitarios, desigualdad, clases sociales, elecciones educativas, reformas institucionales. ABSTRACT Our contribution to this debate is based on the discursive analysis of several interviews made to working-class students during the 2015-2016 academic year. We specially focused it on the ways in which these students had faced the tuition fees and grants reforms that have been taking pla Debate / ControversyLa apuesta universitaria en los jóvenes de clases populares. Entre la promoción social y la falta de horizonte / University bet in working class young people. Between social promotion and a lack of prospect

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“…The paper builds on previous analyses of Access Agreements by the author and others (McCaig 2008;McCaig and Adnett 2008;2009;Callender and Jackson 2008) that show how the level of financial support and access and outreach priorities vary by different types of English HEI. This analysis revealed a wide divergence of mission between selective pre-1992 (hereafter pre92) institutions concerned with maintaining excellence and those concerned with widening access to under-represented groups (post92s).…”

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The retreat from widening participation? The National Scholarship Programme and new access agreements in English higher education

McCaig

2014

Studies in Higher Education

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This article critically analyses the impact of reforms to the student financial support system in English higher education. Comparative analysis of financial support mechanisms and patterns of outreach engagement with groups underrepresented in higher education show a marked deterioration in the levels of cash support available and an increasingly focus on the brightest poor students (in the form of merit aid) at the expense of the generality of poorer students since the new support programme came into place. This can be seen as part of a wider policy shift away from generic widening participation to the targeting of specific cohorts to raise the attainment level of intakes or to meet recruitment shortfalls. The findings are located in a context of a (near) trebling of tuition fees, stagnation in overall student numbers and the promotion of market mechanisms, all of which can be seen as a challenge to the notion of social justice through the higher education system.

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Does the fear of debt constrain choice of university and subject of study?

Cited by 179 publications

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Gender inequality and disabled inclusivity in accounting higher education and the accounting profession during financial crises

Gender inequality and disabled inclusivity in accounting higher education and the accounting profession during financial crises

La apuesta universitaria en los jóvenes de clases populares. Entre la promoción social y la falta de horizonte

The retreat from widening participation? The National Scholarship Programme and new access agreements in English higher education

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