It's considered a second class thing.' The differences in status between traditional and newly established higher education credentials
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4097638 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ulpukka Isopahkala-Bouret (0000-0002-8535-8874, University of Helsinki, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1291-1306 |
| Publication date | 2015-08-09 |
| 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 | 10.1080/03075079.2014.881339 |
| OpenAlex | W2007927458 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 16 |
Although the system of educational credentials differs in many important ways from country to country, all western countries have experienced a similar trend in the form of an increasing number of graduate degrees. Graduate degrees have also taken on a bewildering range of forms and content. As a consequence, not all graduate degrees have the same credibility and status in the labor market. The aim of this study is to discover how status differences among different kinds of master's degrees are justified within the dual system of Finnish higher education, and how these differences are experienced by graduates themselves. The qualitative data consist of interviews with 30 master's degree graduates and their accounts are narratively analyzed. Theories of educational credentialing are applied to reveal the complex linkage between graduate degrees and how organizational status and resources are hierarchically allocated to different groups of people
Credentialing · Credibility · Demographic economics · Economics · Graduate students · Higher education · Medical education · Pedagogy · Political science · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Higher Education and Employability · Higher Education Governance and Development · Higher Education Learning Practices · Law · Medicine · Psychology
The vocational route to higher education in Finland
Part-time master’s students’ attitudes towards study and work
Concept of research among master’s students in Hong Kong
Master’s Education in Hong Kong
Education is a life marathon rather than a hundred-meter race’
Identity formation and conflicting priorities of early career academics studying the Academic Professional Apprenticeship in England
Access and stratification in Nordic higher education. A review of cross-cutting research themes and issues
Why they stay and why they return – understanding international graduates’ decision-making on workplace location
Temporary institutional breakdowns
Juggling hats
I am just a loser of higher education
Liquidated
Credentials, Signals, and Screens
Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences
Narratives in interview — The case of accounts
Forward and backward, horizontal and vertical
Ivies, extracurriculars, and exclusion
New directions in educational credentialism
The degree is not enough’
Degrees of Control
Employability in a Knowledge-driven Economy
Employing discourse
The Sociology of Education and Work
The Social Sources of Educational Credentialism
| Citations per year | 1.22 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |