Foreword
Dianne Willcocks CBE, DL
ix
About the Contributorsxxi
1 Access to Success and Social Mobility through Higher Education: A Curate’s Egg?
Stuart Billingham
1
Section A Aspects of the Contemporary Access Debate
2 Access to the Elite
Emilie Sundorph, Danail Vasilev and Louis Coiffait
21
3 Access to Higher Education in South Africa
Clara Gwatirera
35
4 Learning Through Life Revisited: The Role of Policy in Enhancing Social Mobility through Access to Part-time Study
Liz Marr and John Butcher
51
5 Increasing Access to Tertiary and Higher Education in Rural Communities: Experiences from Tasmania and New Zealand
Margaret Noble and Jessica Grant
67
Section B Focussing on Student Success and Social Mobility
6 What Can Social Capital Contribute to Student Success in Higher Education? Perspectives from Students and Institutions
Helen May and Mark Jones
85
7 ‘So You Want to Be an Academic?’ The Experiences of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Undergraduates in a UK Creative Arts University
Siobhan Clay
99
8 Students’ Views of Tertiary Education as ‘Access to Success’: A Case Study of a Multicultural College in Israel
Bruria Schaedel
115
9 Collective Responsibility and Collaborative Action: Universities and Employers in Pursuit of Social Mobility
Nik Miller
131
Section C Innovations in Access to Success
10 Students Not Patients: Opening Up the University to Those with Mental Health Problems
Simon Newton and Nick Rowe
147
11 Service Learning and Academic Activism: A Review, Prospects and a Time for Revival?
Tony Wall, Dwight E. Giles, Jr and Tim Stanton
163
12 Warming a Higher Education Cold Spot: The Case of Coventry University in Scarborough
Craig Gaskell and Ian Dunn
177
13 A Teacher´s Experience of the Transformative Pedagogic Effect of Part-time Degree Study
Gerard Sharpling and Neil Murray
191
Section D Access to Success and Social Mobility: Thinking Big
14 Access to Success and Social Mobility Involves Everyone! A Whole Institution Approach to Widening Participation
Liz Thomas
209
15 Advocating for Access: World Access to Higher Education Day and Beyond
Graeme Atherton
225
Index237

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