Access and Participation in Irish Higher Education
This book explores the access and participation issues present within Higher Education in Ireland. It examines policy, pedagogy and practices in relation to widening participation and documents the progress and challenges encountered in furthering the ‘access agenda’ over the past two decades. Acces...
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2017.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2017. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56974-5 |
Table of Contents:
- PART I. Introduction
- Chapter 1. Key trends in Irish Higher Education and the Emergence and Development of Access
- Chapter 2. Access and Widening Participation: Stories from the Policy Domain
- Chapter 3. Routes in: Access Categories, Mechanisms and Processes
- Chapter 4. The Purpose of Access: Equality, Social Mobility and the Knowledge Economy
- PART II. Research and Policy on Access Students: Experiences, Intersections and Gaps
- Chapter 5. Working Class Access to Higher Education: Structures, Experiences and Categories
- Chapter 6. Moving to Higher Education: Opportunities and Barriers Experienced by People with Disabilities; Michael Shevlin, Conor Mc Guckin, Sheena Bell and Cristina Devecchi
- Chapter 7. Mature Students in Irish HE; Mark Kearns
- Chapter 8. The Gender Experiences of Non-Traditional Students in Irish Higher Education; Bernie Grummell and Rose Ryan
- Chapter 9. Part-time and Flexible Learning in Irish Higher Education; Nuala Hunt
- PART III. Introduction
- Chapter 10. Learning and Teaching and Non-Traditional Students in HE
- Chapter 11. Retention in Ireland’s Higher Education Institutions
- Chapter 12. Towards a Conclusion.