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The economics of screening and risk sharing in higher education : human capital formation, income inequality, and welfare
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ISBN: 0128031905 0128031913 9780128031919 9780128031902 9780128031902 Year: 2015 Publisher: Amsterdam, [Netherlands] : Academic Press,

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The Economics of Screening and Risk Sharing in Higher Education explores advances in information technologies and in statistical and social sciences that have significantly improved the reliability of techniques for screening large populations. These advances are important for higher education worldwide because they affect many of the mechanisms commonly used for rationing the available supply of educational services. Using a single framework to study several independent questions, the authors provide a comprehensive theory in an empirically-driven field. Their answers to questions about funding structures for investments in higher education, students' attitudes towards risk, and the availability of arrangements for sharing individual talent risks are important for understanding the theoretical underpinnings of information and uncertainty on human capital formation. Investigates conditions under which better screening leads to desirable outcomes such as higher human capital accumulation, less income inequality, and higher economic well-being. Questions how the role of screening relates to the funding structure for investments in higher education and to the availability of risk sharing arrangements for individual talent risks. Reveals government policies that are suited for controlling or counteracting detrimental side effects along the growth path.


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Fairness in access to higher education in a global perspective : reconciling excellence, efficiency, and justice
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ISBN: 9789462092303 9789462092297 9462092303 9789462092280 1299770568 9781299770560 Year: 2013 Publisher: Rotterdam : Sense Publishers,

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The purpose of this volume is to help jump-start an urgently needed conversation about fairness and justice in access to higher education to counteract the ubiquitous mantras of neoliberal globalization and managerialism. The book seeks to carve out a strong moral and normative basis for opposing mainstream developments that engender increasing inequality and market-dependency in higher education. The book’s chapters consider how different national communities channel access to higher education, what their “implicit social contracts” are, and what outcomes are produced by different policies and methods. The book is essential reading for scholars of higher education and students concerned with increasing inequality in a globalizing educational marketplace.


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Bridges : United States academia for first-generation and international college students
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ISBN: 9781439919866 Year: 2020 Publisher: Temple University Press

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This book is for students who are considering entering undergraduate or graduate schoolprograms at a United States college or university. Some of the information in here might beuseful for students entering specialty programs such as technical schools, law schools, executiveprograms, or medical schools. However, it does not directly discuss these programs.This book is for two specific audiences: first-generation students and internationalstudents. If none of your close family members/caregivers/mentors went to college, or if you’rean international student whose parents didn’t go to college in the United States, you will needto do a lot of fact-finding research on your own. This book can help point you in the rightdirection.


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Higher education admission practices : an international perspective
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ISBN: 1108685803 1108559603 1108472265 1108626513 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book provides a path for resolving challenges related to access, diversity, equity, and other issues facing higher education admissions. It illuminates current higher education admissions practices in a global context, highlighting common obstacles. The chapters outline decision-making models used in college admissions, details those assessments commonly employed in admissions, and provides innovative perspectives on the future of admissions. The book's multidisciplinary approach defines much-needed changes in admissions brought about by shifts in the makeup of student populations and in higher education itself. Rationales for moving away from traditional assessments used in admissions and expanding the criteria used to ensure a student's academic success are discussed. Readers will come away with an understanding of the current issues, philosophies, and historical circumstances facing higher education admissions across the globe and will be equipped to contemplate and react to future possibilities and opportunities.


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Access to success and social mobility through higher education : a curate's egg?
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ISBN: 1787439925 1787438368 178754110X 1787438376 9781787438361 9781787439924 9781787541108 Year: 2018 Publisher: Bingley, United Kingdom : Emerald Publishing,

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This edited collection illuminates the benefits, drawbacks, challenges, opportunities of the push to widen access to success and social mobility through university and other post-secondary education experiences in the UK and internationally. It examines a range of particular case studies, and addresses issues including the role of part-time study, the experiences of BAME students, increasing access within rural communities, issues faced by those with mental health problems, and the role of employers. There has been some progress in some countries; increased access and enhanced success for some targeted populations, but not for others; and improvements in some regions of particular countries, but not for others. Efforts to improve access to success and social mobility, to strengthen the identification and nurturing of talent in every community and every corner of our societies, is, like the curates egg, only good in parts. This collection demonstrates that educational inequalities, unfairness and injustices still remain.


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Perspectives on access to higher education : practice and research
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ISBN: 1787569918 1787569934 1787569942 9781787569911 9781787569935 9781787569942 Year: 2019 Publisher: Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing Limited,

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Access education has been through many changes since its beginnings in the late 1960s. Recent shifts in the academic landscape including standardization, grading, and new tensions in higher education raise difficult questions for educators regarding the future of access education.This book critically examines various aspects of Access education from a historical perspective. It proposes that there are particular 'Access' values that are shared by practitioners that can be at odds with the needs of higher education. Wider questions concerning funding and accountability underpinned by neoliberalism have also had an impact on Access education. The authors, practitioners and researchers of Access education, gather their insights in this timely book, grounded in authentic experience. They explore the ways in which policies and procedures have been developed in light of these tensions. By drawing particular attention to the voices of Access practitioners and highlighting the current constraints around curriculum design this book will prove invaluable for leaders, administrators, researchers and practitioners in further and higher education.


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The privileged poor : how elite colleges are failing disadvantaged students
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ISBN: 9780674239647 0674239644 9780674239661 0674239660 9780674239678 0674239679 9780674976894 0674976894 9780674248243 0674248244 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press,

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Getting in is only half the battle. The struggles of less privileged students continue long after they've arrived on campus. Anthony Jack reveals how-and why-admission to elite schools does not mean acceptance for disadvantaged students, and he explains what schools can do differently to help the privileged poor thrive.


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Effectiveness and Fairness of Chinese Higher Education Admissions Policy : Perceptions and Reforms
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ISBN: 9819905028 981990501X Year: 2023 Publisher: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer,

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This book explores effectiveness and fairness in higher education admissions policy. It reviews the literatures from the 1940s until the 2010s and provides a theoretical framework. The book explores comparisons between this framework and the empirical data by interviewing policymakers from the Chinese government as well as admissions officer at Chinese universities. The book contributes to providing underlying theoretical foundation on the future Chinese higher education admissions policy reform. This book appeals to policymakers on all level of education, practitioners of admissions policy, researchers on education policy, and anyone who is interested in this field.


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Journal of college admissions
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ISSN: 07346670 Publisher: Special issue

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