Diversity and Esteem in Higher Education

There are many calls for greater variety in the provision of higher education combined with greater transferability between courses and institutions - in short, that we should end the present hierarchy of esteem in which institutions and subjects of study are commonly held.Is this likely to be done easily? Too little consideration has been given to the size and strength of the social forces that create educational elitism. Some idea of this size and strength may be gained by looking, as a revealing example, at some educational history. Elitism has survived in times when the factors usually thought of as decisive have been strongly adverse to it. We should not hope that its virulence is any less now. New approaches are needed, and a concerted effort to decide what these approaches should be is now urgent.To have much hope of achieving perceived equality of esteem of diverse types of higher education, an intensive study of the causes of elitism in education, and of measures that would have some chance of reducing it, is needed. A single Royal Commission type of inquiry is unlikely to be enough. A structured set of parallel inquiries might offer more hope

Commission · Diversity (politics) · Economic growth · Economics · Elitism · Hierarchy · Higher education · Human capital · Political science · Politics · Set (abstract data type) · Sociology · Transferability · Variety (cybernetics) · Computer Science · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Higher Education Governance and Development · Law

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