'The sooner the better I could get out of there': Barriers to higher education access in Ireland

Irish Educational Studies

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 141-157

  McCoy, Selina ^a   Byrne, Delma ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Higher education access; Non manual group; Social class

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960519516     PISSN: 03323315     EISSN: 17474965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03323315.2011.569135     Document Type: Article

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