Can earmarked admission places help address the perceived rural disadvantage in higher education access? Evidence from Romania
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21511056 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emilia Țițan (0000-0003-0614-1958, Department of Statistics and Econometrics, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania), Adrian Oțoiu (0000-0001-5830-5462, Department of Statistics and Econometrics, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania, corresponding author), Dorel Paraschiv (0000-0002-4559-3466, Department of Statistics and Econometrics, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania), Daniela Manea (0000-0002-7655-1541, Department of Statistics and Econometrics, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 167-185 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Oxford Review of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-4985 • E-ISSN: 1465-3915 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03054985.2022.2136151 |
| OpenAlex | W4307891397 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 20 |
The perceived disadvantage faced by high school students from rural areas in pursuing higher education is often associated with the fact that these areas are by default affected by socio-economic disadvantages. The analysis of the results from the high school baccalaureate examination for Romania, which is mandatory for admission to higher education, and which plays a major role in ranking the applicants, shows the potential outcomes of the university admission policy targeting high school baccalaureate holders from rural areas. Under different scenarios, this can lead to either targeted admission places being allocated to students that would have been otherwise successfully admitted by competing on general admission places or could have helped students from other disadvantaged backgrounds. These results may help as a basis for guiding policy designs that can better target admission places for students from disadvantaged backgrounds
Access to Higher Education · Disadvantage · Disadvantaged · Economic growth · Economics · Higher education · Medical education · Political science · Rural area · Education Systems and Policy · Higher Education Learning Practices · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Medicine · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |