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Direct linkGao, Fang; Ng, Jacky Chi Kit; Lee, Wincy Wing Sze – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2023
The extant literature on parental involvement in the university choice process sheds light on the positive impact of parents' social capital on enrolment. Little research captures the complex dynamics of parental social capital that might within certain sociocultural and economic contexts compound the effects on university choice and access. This…
Descriptors: Social Capital, College Choice, Parent Participation, Academic Aspiration
Download full textWut, Tai-Ming; Xu, Jing; Lee, Stephanie Wing – Education Sciences, 2022
Each year, final year high school students choose the university that they would prefer to attend. Past studies have found that family, friends, course availability, university reputation, distances from home, and job prospects were factors affecting students' choice of university. However, the relative weight of these factors might have changed…
Descriptors: Reputation, Universities, Secondary School Students, Peer Influence
Fang Gao – Educational Review, 2024
Empirical studies on university choice and access among under-represented racial/ethnic minorities have utilised the concept of school-based social capital (SBSC)--defined by Stanton-Salazar as key resources and support provided by institutional agents (i.e. teachers, counsellors and other staff). They primarily relied upon minority students'…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Minority Group Students, College Choice, Access to Education
Gardner, David; Lau, Ken – Oxford Review of Education, 2018
This paper reports on a study of prior and current experiences with English of non-local Asian international students and of their language expectations when commencing their studies at an English-medium university in Hong Kong. In addition to grappling with new academic demands, these sojourners need to adapt to a vastly different social…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language of Instruction
Popov, Nikolay, Ed.; Wolhuter, Charl, Ed.; de Beer, Louw, Ed.; Hilton, Gillian, Ed.; Ogunleye, James, Ed.; Achinewhu-Nworgu, Elizabeth, Ed.; Niemczyk, Ewelina, Ed. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2021
This volume contains a collection of selected papers submitted to the 19th Annual International Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES) held in June 2021. The 19th BCES Conference theme is "New Challenges to Education: Lessons from around the World." The book includes 40 papers written by 66 authors from 15…
Descriptors: Educational History, Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Global Approach
