Perspectives on Access to Higher Education
Perspectives on Access to Higher Education Access education has been through many changes since its beginnings in the late 1960s. This book critically examines various aspects of Access education…
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Perspectives on Access to Higher Education
Access education has been through many changes since its beginnings in the late 1960s. This book critically examines various aspects of Access education from a historical perspective. Recent shifts in the academic landscape including standardization, grading, and new tensions in higher education raise difficult questions for educators regarding the future of access education.
Wider questions concerning funding and accountability underpinned by neoliberalism have also had an impact on Access education. It proposes that there are particular 'Access' values that are shared by practitioners that can be at odds with the needs of higher education. The authors, practitioners and researchers of Access education, gather their insights in this timely book, grounded in authentic experience.
They explore the ways in which policies and procedures have been developed in light of these tensions. By