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Product Description: At a time when the shape of society in the UK is changing, this book makes clear what social mobility is and explores what enables upward mobility. Education is seen as a key element in creating opportunities and life chances central to developing a more equal society, but the diminishing level of opportunity available to people from lower socio-economic groups is increasingly causing concern...read more

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9781858565088 | Trentham Books Ltd, April 30, 2013, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: At a time when the shape of society in the UK is changing, this book makes clear what social mobility is and explores what enables upward mobility.

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The rapid expansion of higher education provision, particularly in Europe and North America during the 1960s opened up for the first time the question whether everyone should have the opportunity to experience the benefits of higher university and other institutions. The contributors are economists, sociologists and politicians and all have different assumptions, commitments and postures.
By Gordon Roderick (editor) and Michael Stephens (editor)

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9780415685139, titled "Higher Education for All?" | Reprint edition (Routledge, December 8, 2011), cover price $155.00 | About this edition: The rapid expansion of higher education provision, particularly in Europe and North America during the 1960s opened up for the first time the question whether everyone should have the opportunity to experience the benefits of higher university and other institutions.
9780905273105 | Taylor & Francis, June 1, 1979, cover price $33.00

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9780415750745, titled "Higher Education for All?" | Reprint edition (Routledge, August 12, 2014), cover price $54.95

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9780335211128 | Open Univ Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $130.00

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9780335211111 | Open Univ Pr, July 1, 2002, cover price $51.95

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Product Description: "This book is a forceful restatement of the classic 'Left' analysis of both the shortcomings, and radical potential, of higher education. In an age of soft-focus sound-bite New Labour politics such a restatement is badley needed. The authors take no prisonerrs in their critique of postmodernism as an empty and conformist discourse that inhibits radical action...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780335208692 | Open Univ Pr, August 1, 2002, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: "This book is a forceful restatement of the classic 'Left' analysis of both the shortcomings, and radical potential, of higher education.

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9780335208685, titled "For a Radical Higher Education After Postmodernism" | Open Univ Pr, August 1, 2002, cover price $81.00 | About this edition: "This book is a forceful restatement of the classic 'Left' analysis of both the shortcomings, and radical potential, of higher education.

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Product Description: Book by Preece, Julia, Houghton, Ann-Marie (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780754614654 | Ashgate Pub Ltd, October 1, 2000, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: Book by Preece, Julia, Houghton, Ann-Marie

Product Description: This work suggests that widening participation is not just about changing learner expectations; it is also about changing institutional expectations and practices. "Higher" learning, for example, should include a broader, more inclusive range of knowledge and ways of knowing than at present and criteria for learning achievement should include assessment of "citizenship" as well as linear outcomes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780754611509 | Ashgate Pub Ltd, October 1, 1999, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: This work suggests that widening participation is not just about changing learner expectations; it is also about changing institutional expectations and practices.

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Product Description: The essays in this volume envisage a system of higher education fit for the new millennium, identifying ways in which universities must take the initiative in defining radically different models of their futures promoting democratic values and offering quality lifelong learning opportunities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Frank Coffield (editor) and Bill Williamson (editor)

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9780335197156 | Open Univ Pr, March 1, 1997, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: The essays in this volume envisage a system of higher education fit for the new millennium, identifying ways in which universities must take the initiative in defining radically different models of their futures promoting democratic values and offering quality lifelong learning opportunities.

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9780335197163 | Open Univ Pr, March 1, 1997, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Envisage a system of higher education.

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Product Description: This text attempts to analyze the growth of mass higher education in a specifically British context, while seeking to develop more theoretical perspectives on this transformation of elite university systems into open post-secondary education systems...read more

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9780335194438 | Open Univ Pr, October 1, 1995, cover price $123.00 | About this edition: This text attempts to analyze the growth of mass higher education in a specifically British context, while seeking to develop more theoretical perspectives on this transformation of elite university systems into open post-secondary education systems.

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9780335194421 | Open Univ Pr, October 1, 1995, cover price $71.95 | About this edition: This text attempts to analyze the growth of mass higher education in a specifically British context, while seeking to develop more theoretical perspectives on this transformation of elite university systems into open post-secondary education systems.

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Product Description: In this work, Mal Leicester argues that an anti-racist, pluralist approach can transform adult education in higher education and in other contexts; that adult and continuing education departments are potential agents of change in higher education with regard to the development of anti-racist higher education; and that race and culture issues, properly understood, could empower higher education in its most central tasks...read more

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9780335097685 | Open Univ Pr, July 1, 1993, cover price $130.00

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9780335097678 | Open Univ Pr, July 1, 1993, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: In this work, Mal Leicester argues that an anti-racist, pluralist approach can transform adult education in higher education and in other contexts; that adult and continuing education departments are potential agents of change in higher education with regard to the development of anti-racist higher education; and that race and culture issues, properly understood, could empower higher education in its most central tasks.

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