Between Institutional Competition and the Search for Equality of Opportunities: Access of Mature Students

Autor/inn/en	Amarala, Alberto; Magalhaes, Antonio
Titel	Between Institutional Competition and the Search for Equality of Opportunities: Access of Mature Students
Quelle	In: Higher Education Policy, 22 (2009) 4, S.505-521 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0952-8733
DOI	10.1057/hep.2009.15
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Birth Rate; Competition; Student Diversity; Foreign Countries; College Environment; Politics of Education; Educational Policy; Policy Analysis; Educational Philosophy; Educational Change; Change Strategies; Access to Education; Institutional Characteristics; International Education; Disproportionate Representation; Portugal + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Wettkampf; Ausland; Hochschulumwelt; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Politics of education; Politikfeldanalyse; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Bildungsreform; Lösungsstrategie; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Internationale Erziehung
Abstract	This article examines the access policies in Portuguese higher education, from the 1974 revolution to the present. Recently, under the simultaneous pressure of a declining birth rate and increasing financial stringency, higher education institutions, both public and private, have started to compete for students, while responding to increasing social demands for a more diversified higher education. The government and institutions are being challenged to meet both the political goal of equality of opportunities through widening access to higher education, and the need to attract underrepresented students from a broader range of social backgrounds that includes more mature students. This article contextualises the government's access policies, which changed quite recently to offer not only "more" higher education but also "more diverse" higher education; it also identifies institutional reactions to access policies as reflected by the nature of public or private funding and higher education type, that is, university or polytechnic identity. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10