Moving to opportunity
Student trajectories in the post-Bologna university system in Denmark
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21725670 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jens‐peter Thomsen (0000-0003-4009-004X, VIVE - The Danish Center for Social Science Research, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 146-169 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Educational Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1474-9041 • E-ISSN: 2165-8714 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14749041211046748 |
| OpenAlex | W3204009946 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 24 |
This paper examines whether the implementation of the Bologna bachelor’s + master’s structure has been followed by an increase of university students from under-represented groups, and whether the Bologna structure has been accompanied by new forms of student mobility between Danish university institutions. Looking at student movements from bachelor’s to master’s degrees from 1993 to 2011, I do not find that the implementation of the Bologna structure has been followed by changes in the inclusion of under-represented groups. The social gap in progression to master’s degrees remained small and constant across the period. However, the formal instalment of a new transition point in the Danish university system (from bachelor’s to master’s) has provided bachelor’s degree holders with the opportunity to flee less lucrative fields of study and less prestigious institutions, and they increasingly do so. I discuss the implications of these movements in the light of the aim to make higher education more inclusive
Bachelor · Bologna declaration · Bologna Process · Danish · Higher education · Mathematics education · Opportunity structures · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Law · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Persistent inequality
Unequal Childhoods
Stratification in Higher Education
The State Nobility
Dealing with selection bias in educational transition models
More diversion than inclusion? Social stratification in the Bologna system
European Sociological Review
Explaining Educational Differentials
Class Analysis and the Reorientation of Class Theory
Change and Stability in Educational Stratification
Fields of Study, College Selectivity, and Student Inequalities in Higher Education
Overcoming failure in higher education
Inequality of Opportunity in Comparative Perspective
Higher Education Participation in the Nordic Countries 1985-2010-A Comparative Perspective
Maintaining Inequality Effectively? Access to Higher Education Programmes in a Universalist Welfare State in Periods of Educational Expansion 1984-2010
The Introduction of Bachelor Degrees and the Under-representation of Students from Low Social Origin in Higher Education in Germany
The Structure of Educational Decision Making and Consequences for Inequality
Effectively Maintained Inequality
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |