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ESU Seminar Equity in Higher Education, Brusno
6-8 May 2008
Equity today for tomorrow EUROSTUDENTs
foreseen contribution Dr. Dominic Orr Head of
International Coordination HIS, Germany
The future has already arrived it is just not
evenly distributed (William Gibson)
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Contents

• What is equity?
• How do we capture it?
• What are we doing now?
• What changes do we want?

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Participative equity
This term has been defined within the Bologna
Process "() the societal goal that the student
body entering, participating in and completing
higher education should reflect the diversity of
our populations."
Extract from BFUG Working Group Social Dimension
and Data on Mobility of Staff and Students, 2007.
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Participative equity 1
Study framework
Entrance to higher ed.
Graduation
high
high
low
low
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Participative equity 2
Study framework
Entrance to higher ed.
Graduation
high
high
low
low
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Participative equity 3
Study framework
Entrance to higher ed.
Graduation
high
high
low
low
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Participative equity 1 Who gets in?
Ratio of highest education attainment of
students fathers compared to the general
population (men 40-60 yrs., in )
1.20
Ratio for students with low education background
1.00
0.80
0.60
0.40
0.20
0.00
1.04
1.03
0.96
n.d.
0.90
n.d.
0.81
0.71
0.70
0.66
0.60
0.59
0.59
0.58
0.49
0.42
0.40
0.29
0.27
0.21
0.20
0.09
NL
ES
FI
SCO
CH
E/W
IE
PT
AT
SE
FR
IT
SI
NO
TR
EE
DE
LV
SK
CZ
RO
BG
Source EUROSTUDENT III, Subtopic 19 Provisional
data.
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Participative equity 1 How do they gets in?

Link between background and alternative routes
into higher education
1.20
ES
1.00
FI
CH
IE
0.80
PT
AT
FR
SE
0.60
students with low education background (ratio for
fathers)
NO
IT
TR
EE
DE
0.40
LV
SK
RO
CZ
0.20
BG
0.00
0.0
2.0
4.0
6.0
8.0
10.0
12.0
share of students entering via non-traditional
routes (narrow def.)
Source EUROSTUDENT III, Subtopic 7
19 Provisional data.
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Participative equity 2 What are their study
conditions?
Composition of students income Base funding
(family state) in by socio-economic background
Source EUROSTUDENT III, Subtopic 27 Provisional
data.
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Bologna Process Data collection
London Communiqué 2007
"Data collection 3.4 We recognise the need to
improve the availability of data on both mobility
and the social dimension across all the countries
participating in the Bologna Process. We
therefore ask the European Commission (Eurostat),
in conjunction with EUROSTUDENT, to develop
comparable and reliable indicators and data to
measure progress towards the overall objective
for the social dimension and student and staff
mobility in all Bologna countries. Data in this
field should cover participative equity in higher
education as well as employability for graduates.
This task should be carried out in conjunction
with BFUG and a report should be submitted to our
2009 Ministerial conference."
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Bologna Process Data collection 1
Source EUROSTUDENT/Eurostat proposal, Oct 2007.
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Bologna Process Data collection 2
Source EUROSTUDENT/Eurostat proposal, Oct 2007.
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Bologna Process Data collection 3
Source EUROSTUDENT/Eurostat proposal, Oct 2007.
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First conclusions

• Double strategy
• policy-makers and institutions must decide
• where initiatives should be taken to make such
  differences less pronounced
• where to accept the differences and design study
  programmes around them

How will such changes affect our ideas of higher
education?
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Social dimension part of a students learning
biography
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23 countries
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Participative equity
Study framework
Entrance to higher ed.
Graduation
high
high
Country A
?
?
?
?
?
?
Country B
?
?
?
low
low
Country C
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Report structure
EUROSTUDENT Dataset

• Data appendix Key indicators
• All key indicators
• All 63 subtopics
• All countries
• Excel data sheets

• Synopsis of indicators
• Comparative report
• All countries
• Interpretive analyses

• National Profiles
• 23 national reports
• In-depth data
• National commentaries
• Compare data by country on-line
• Compare data by country in Excel data sheets

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Report schedule