The Privilege of Choice: How Prospective College Students' Financial Concerns Influence Their Choice of Higher Education Institution and Subject of Study in England

Autor/inn/en	Callender, Claire; Melis, Gabriella
Titel	The Privilege of Choice: How Prospective College Students' Financial Concerns Influence Their Choice of Higher Education Institution and Subject of Study in England
Quelle	In: Journal of Higher Education, 93 (2022) 3, S.477-501 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Callender, Claire) ORCID (Melis, Gabriella)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-1546
DOI	10.1080/00221546.2021.1996169
Schlagwörter	College Choice; Decision Making; Equal Education; Social Differences; Educational Experience; Student Financial Aid; Majors (Students); Competition; Costs; Educational Policy; Foreign Countries; Access to Education; Classification; College Applicants; Disadvantaged; Educational Finance; Secondary School Students; Debt (Financial); Outcomes of Education; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Studienortwahl; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Sozialer Unterschied; Bildungserfahrung; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Studienfinanzierung; Studienförderung; Wettkampf; Cost; Kosten; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Ausland; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; College applications; Studienbewerber; Bildungsfonds; Sekundarschüler; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg
Abstract	A hallmark of English higher education (HE) over the last twenty years has been policies seeking to increase provider competition and student choice. Central to this has been student funding policy changes, leading to rising college costs. This article asks if prospective HE students' concerns about college costs and the financial strategies they anticipate using because of them, widen or limit their choice of HE institution and subject of study. It calls on the findings from a nationally representative survey of 1,374 English college applicants and uses latent class analysis to develop a typology of students' planned financial coping mechanisms: "Minimizing costs"; "Managing costs and maximizing returns"; and "No financial concerns"; which prove to be socially stratified. "Minimizing costs" students are the most disadvantaged and adopt mechanisms which constrain their choices of where and what to study, unlike students in the other groups. Thus, government policies aimed at improving student choice potentially have the opposite effect for the most disadvantaged, perpetuating existing inequalities in access to, and the experience of, HE. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01