Are There Economic Incentives for Non-Traditional Students to Enter HE? The Labour Market as a Barrier to Widening Participation

Autor/inn/en	Adnett, Nick; Slack, Kim
Titel	Are There Economic Incentives for Non-Traditional Students to Enter HE? The Labour Market as a Barrier to Widening Participation
Quelle	In: Higher Education Quarterly, 61 (2007) 1, S.23-36 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0951-5224
DOI	10.1111/j.1468-2273.2006.00336.x
Schlagwörter	Incentives; Nontraditional Students; Higher Education; Labor Market; Social Differences; Economically Disadvantaged; Outcomes of Education; Barriers; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Anreiz; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Sozialer Unterschied; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	The expansion of higher education (HE) in the UK has disproportionately benefited young people from relatively rich families: the gap between rich and poor in terms of participation in HE having widened since the 1970s. We explore a neglected possible cause of this class difference: that the labour market fails to provide sufficient incentives for potential entrants from less advantaged backgrounds to enter HE. Most studies of the rewards from participating in HE in the UK suggest that the rates of returns are sufficiently high to provide clear economic incentives to participate. However, until recently, most studies generated estimates of the average rate of return to graduation, which could overestimate returns to marginal entrants, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds. In this review we examine the methodological problems faced by more targeted studies of the rates of return to graduation and review their key findings concerning the economic returns to non-traditional entrants. (As Provided).
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