How fair is access to more prestigious UK universities? (Record no. 131616)

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International Standard Serial Number 1468-4446
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Classification number Journals
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Personal name Boliver, Vikki
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Title How fair is access to more prestigious UK universities?
Medium Journal
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. British Journal of Sociology
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2013
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Extent Journal article
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General note <p>British Journal of Sociology Vol. 64 no.&nbsp;1 (Jun. 2013), p. 344-364.</p> <p>Available in the library. See journal shelves.</p> <p>Available online.</p>
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Summary, etc. Now that most UK universities have increased their tuition fees to £9,000 a year and are implementing new Access Agreements as required by the Office for Fair Access, it has never been more important to examine the extent of fair access to UK higher education and to more prestigious UK universities in particular. This paper uses Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) data for the period 1996 to 2006 to explore the extent of fair access to prestigious Russell Group universities, where ‘fair’ is taken to mean equal rates of making applications to and receiving offers of admission from these universities on the part of those who are equally qualified to enter them. The empirical findings show that access to Russell Group universities is far from fair in this sense and that little changed following the introduction of tuition fees in 1998 and their initial increase to £3,000 a year in 2006. Throughout this period, UCAS applicants from lower class backgrounds and from state schools remained much less likely to apply to Russell Group universities than their comparably qualified counterparts from higher class backgrounds and private schools, while Russell Group applicants from state schools and from Black and Asian ethnic backgrounds remained much less likely to receive offers of admission from Russell Group universities in comparison with their equivalently qualified peers from private schools and the White ethnic group.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Sociology
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Higher education
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12021">http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12021</a>
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