David Watsons Power Point Presentation

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David Watsons Power Point Presentation
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Widening participation in HE policy and practice

• Seminar series on Mass HE in UK and international
  contexts
• 30 May 2007
• David Watson, Institute of Education, University
  of London

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Widening participation the hard questions

• Why?
• Under what conditions?
• With what results?
• What is to be done?

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This book is about the institutions that
define our economic lives. It will become
apparent that it is not just economic
institutions which matter. Economic institutions
function only as part of a social, political and
cultural context. This is what I describe as
the embedded market. John Kay (2003) The
Truth About Markets
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Universal issues

• Economic polarisation
• Social and ethnic discrimination
• The expectations and performance of schooling
• Positioning in a global market for higher
  education and its services

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Normative questions why should we widen
participation?
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Trows taxonomy

• Elite systems enrol up to 15 of the age group
• Mass systems enrol 15-40 of the age group
• Universal systems enrol more than 40 of the age
  group

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Internationally comparable estimates of
intergenerational mobility
Source CEP 2005
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Contextual questions what are the key cultural
influences?
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Source Jones 2005
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Empirical questions how are we doing?
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Source Ramsden in Slowey and Watson 2003
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Source Ramsden in Slowey and Watson 2003
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Source Ramsden in Slowey and Watson 2003
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Source Ramsden in Slowey and Watson 2003
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Source Ramsden in Slowey and Watson 2003
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Source Ramsden in Slowey and Watson 2003
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Higher education and lifelong learning a
framework of change
Source Schuetze and Slowey 2000
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Upper secondary attainment by age-group
Source OECD (2004) Education at Glance, Table
A3.3, p.71
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Operational questions what works?
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Population aged 25-34 with at least upper
secondary education (HS graduate) 2001
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Education and Training of British Management
Source Keep and Westwood 2002 in CIHE 2004
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Conclusions some answers

• Expansion and fairness
• Risk, retention and re-engagement
• Schools
• Institutional resistance
• Public confidence
• Credit
• Innovation and de-regulation

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Participation and social justice

• Who is under-represented?
• Should universities look like their communities?

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What WP is not about

• Inadequate admissions tutors
• Irrational choices by students
• Debt aversion
• Supply-side defects

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What WP is about

• Improving schools
• Parental expectations
• National ambitions for Level 3
• Genuine employer engagement

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Some wicked issues

• Expansion and participation
• Lack of patience
• Displacement
• Header-tank policies
• Policy leadership
• Human and social capital

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Facing the future some tests

• 14-19
• Youth employment without training
• Employment discrimination
• Lifelong learning
• a world-class higher education sector

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Discussion