2011. "Elitism and Meritocracy in UK Universities: The UK Needs Investment in its Labour Force." Higher Education Quarterly 65 (2): 113 -144.Simister, J. (2011) Elitism and Meritocracy in UK Universities: the UK Needs Investment in Its Labour Force. Higher Education Quarterly, 65 (2), ...
Educational transitions in the UK are related to social background characteristics such as social class and, to a lesser extent, ethnicity and gender. This thesis presents a case study of admission to the University of Oxford to understand why, conditional on application, admissions patterns into ...
Education The standardised... Britain is not a meritocracy…Learning In Practice The standardised admission ratio for measuring widening participation in medical schools: analysis of UK medical school admissions by ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and sex BMJ 2004; 328 doi: http://dx.doi.org/...
Economic Statecraft, Women, and the Federal Reserve | The Baseline Scenario: “With skills at such a premium, we should perhaps expect countries to put as many resources as possible into bringing everyone as much education as possible. But this is not in fact what we see, particularly with r...
Higher Education, Meritocracy and Inequality in China Ye Liu Part of the book series: Higher Education in Asia: Quality, Excellence and Governance ((HEAQEG)) 2882 Accesses Abstract The last century has been marked by a division between the West and East. In particular, since the Second ...
This Book Investigates University Admissions In The Uk And Usa, With A Particular Focus On The Most Selective And Elite Universities In Both Countries. It Explains The Values, Processes And Practices That Judge Some Individuals As Worthy Of Getting An Education At Those Universities And Deny Admissi...
In the global context of increasing inequalities between advantaged and disadvantaged social groups, the role of education in achieving social justice has taken on new importance. In this chapter we consider two widely acclaimed books on social inequality, namely: Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twe...
Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, Coventry University, Coventry, UK Correspondence toSimon Goodman Editor information Editors and Affiliations Rights and permissions Reprints and permissions Copyright information © 2014 Springer Science+Business Media New York ...
Creating insitutions of mercy that focus on health care, education, and employment is necessary to foster moral-social transformation. Getting equal access to health care differs from setting up free or less expensive health, but poor health services, to the poor while the better-offs get access...
The rise of the meritocracy 1870–2033: An essay on education and society Google Scholar The Guardian. Google Scholar Author information Authors and Affiliations University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK Ansgar Allen Corresponding author Correspondence toAnsgar Allen. ...