Graduate views on access to higher education
Is It Really a Case of Pulling Up the Ladder
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4096620 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rob Webb (University of Nottingham, corresponding author), Duncan Watson (University of East Anglia), Steve Cook (0000-0002-1820-8390, Swansea University), Fabio Aricò (0000-0002-9946-4803, Norwich Research Park) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 504-518 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Higher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0307-5079 • E-ISSN: 1470-174X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03075079.2015.1052738 |
| OpenAlex | W1769192866 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 19 |
Using as a starting point in the recent work of Mountford-Zimdars et al., the authors analyse attitudes towards expanding higher education (HE) opportunities in the UK. The authors propose that the approach of Mountford-Zimdars et al. is flawed not only in its adoption of a multivariate logistic regression but also in its interpretation of results. The authors make a number of adaptations, chief among them being the use of an ordered probit approach and the addition of a time dimension to test for changes in attitudes between 2000 and 2010. The authors find that attitudes towards HE expansion have intensified during the decade 2000–2010, but the authors uncover no evidence that this is due to graduates wanting to ‘pull up the ladder’, as suggested by Mountford-Zimdars et al. The authors argue that evidence of a widespread desire to reduce access to HE can most likely be explained by social congestion theory, internal institutional disaffection and rising tuition fees
Demographic economics · Econometrics · Economic growth · Economics · Higher education · Logistic regression · Multivariate probit model · Ordered probit · Positive economics · Sociology · Statistics · Computer Science · Higher Education Research Studies · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Mathematics · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.57 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |