Achieving Equity and Quality in Higher Education

Chapter 1 Leadership for Institutional Change to Promote Diversity and Success

Chapter 2 Vertically Segregated Higher Education and the Life Course: Comparing Patterns Over 28 Years

Chapter 3 Supporting Students’ Learning: The Power of the Student–Teacher Relationship

Chapter 4 Facilitating the Success of Students from Low SES Backgrounds at Regional Universities Through Course Design, Teaching, and Staff Attributes

Chapter 5 A Case Study Using Developmental Education to Raise Equity and Maintain Standards

Chapter 6 Vision 20:20 and Indigenous Health Workforce Development: Institutional Strategies and Initiatives to Attract Underrepresented Students into Elite Courses

Chapter 7 Social Inclusion or Social Engineering? The Politics and Reality of Widening Access to Medicine in the UK

Chapter 8 University Strategies to Improve the Academic Success of Disadvantaged Students: Three Experiences in Chile

Chapter 9 Widening Participation in Medicine in the UK

Chapter 10 Affirmative Actions as an Instrument to Balance Access to Superior Education in Brazil: The Quotas Policy

Chapter 12 Fees Regimes and Widening Access in the Four UK Nations: Are No-Fees Regimes Necessarily More Socially Inclusive?

Chapter 13 High Status Professions, Their Related Degrees and the Social Construction of ‘Quality’

Chapter 14 How Can Contextualised Admissions Widen Participation?

Chapter 15 Governmental Supports for Students in Turkey: Beneficiary Perspective on the Use of Financial and Social Support in Higher Education