Managerialism and equalities: Tensions within widening access policy and practice for disabled students in UK

Higher Education

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 615-628

  Riddell, Sheila ^a   Weedon, Elisabet ^a   Fuller, Mary ^b   Healey, Mick ^b   Hurst, Alan ^c   Kelly, Katie ^b   Piggott, Linda ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^d LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disabled students; Equalities; Legislation; Managerialism; Policy; Widening access

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548442480     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-006-9014-8     Document Type: Article

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