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Setting the Scene - Opening Remarks at the Widening Participation to Postgraduate Education: Access after the White Paper Conference, 16 February 2012
- 1. Widening Participation to Postgraduate Education Access after the White Paper 16 February 2012 Royal Institute of British Architects Twitter hashtag #WP2PG Cloudworks site http://bit.ly/y23Dhy
- 2. #WP2PG Setting the scene Paul Wakeling Department of Education University of York paul.wakeling@york.ac.uk
- 3. #WP2PG The White Paper and PG access • Change and continuity in the White Paper • Unanticipated consequences? • “Making policy in the dark”
- 4. #WP2PG Why does PG access matter? • Social justice • Economic argument – Private – Public • The future academic workforce
- 5. UK Student Numbers by Level, 1960 - 2010 3,000,000 2,500,000 Number of students 2,000,000 1,500,000 1,000,000 500,000 0 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 Year Undergraduate Postgraduate
- 6. #WP2PG Postgraduates - complexity • Field of study • Institutional location • Purpose and type • Funding, mode of study etc. etc.
- 7. #WP2PG Inequalities • More data, please – But not for gender • Inequality is U-shaped… • Ethnicity, disability, horizontal stratification
- 8. #WP2PG Transitions • Money, money, money? • How does it all work anyway? • Outreach/inreach?
- 9. #WP2PG What are we going to do about it?
- 10. #WP2PG
- 11. #WP2PG Further reading • House, G. (2010) Postgraduate Education in the United Kingdom. Oxford: HEPI and the British Library • Lindley, J. and Machin, S. (2011) Rising Wage Inequality and Postgraduate Education. Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper 1075. London: LSE. • Machin, S. and Murphy, R. (2010) The social composition and future earnings of postgraduates. London: Sutton Trust. • O’Donnell, V. et al. (2009) Transition to postgraduate study: practice, participation and the widening participation agenda. Active Learning in Higher Education, 10 (1): 26 – 40. • Stuart, M. et al. (2008) Widening participation to postgraduate study: Decisions, deterrents and creating success. York: Higher Education Academy. • Wakeling, P. and Kyriacou, C. (2010) Widening Participation from Undergraduate to Postgraduate Research Degrees. NCCPE and ESRC: Swindon. • Wakeling, P. (2010) Inequalities in postgraduate education: a comparative review. In G. Goastellec, ed. Understanding Inequalities in and by Higher Education, (pp. 61 - 74). Rotterdam: Sense. • Wakeling, P. (2009) Social class and access to postgraduate education in the UK: a sociological analysis, PhD thesis, University of Manchester.