Problems in equalizing access to higher education. Policy lessons from Malta.

Autor/in	Sultana, Ronald G.
Titel	Problems in equalizing access to higher education. Policy lessons from Malta.
Quelle	In: Higher education policy, 8 (1995) 3, S. 51-56Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben 35; Tabellen 3
Sprache	englisch; englische Zusammenfassung
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0952-8733; 1740-3863
DOI	10.1057/hep.1995.47
Schlagwörter	Bildungschance; Chancengleichheit; Soziale Herkunft; Stipendium; Kind; Arbeiterfamilie; Studium; Hochschulpolitik; Hochschulzulassung; Student; Malta
Abstract	Malta is unique in Europe in that its post-compulsory education institutions, including university, provide not only free education, but also a stipend to all students irrespective of the latter's social background. The value of the stipends increases from year to year,... the stipend system forms part of a package of education reforms intended to ensure greater retention in education at the post-compulsory (16+) level. It has been maintained, in a modified form, despite changes in political leadership and the quadrupling of student intake at the Unversity since 1987. This paper provides a background on these reforms and compares them with strategies to democratize educational access adopted across Europe. It reports a number of quantitative studies in order to ascertain the social composition of students at the University of Malta. The paper concludes by engaging sociological theories which purport to explain differential access to education and argues that neither "cultural dispossession" nor "structural exclusion" models suffice to account for the patterns that are evident in the Malta case. (DIPF/Abstract übernommen)
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	1997_(CD)