Student choice in higher education-reducing or reproducing social inequalities?

Social Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2018, Pages

  Callender, Claire ^a   Dougherty, Kevin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice; Higher education; Marketization; Neoliberalism; Part time students; Quasi markets; Social inequality; Student financial aid

Indexed keywords

EID: 85054784498     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20760760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/socsci7100189     Document Type: Article

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