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Tomlinson, Michael – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017
This article first offers a survey of what has become an area of increasing interest in higher education: the rise of the so-called "student-consumer". This has been linked in part to the marketisation of higher education and the increased personal financial contributions individual students make towards their higher education. Drawing…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Self Concept
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Farnsworth, Valerie; Davis, Pauline; Kalambouka, Afroditi; Ralph, Susan; Shi, Xin; Farrell, Peter – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2011
The aim of this article is to extend our understanding of the relationship between knowledge of personal finance and empowerment. The analysis is based on interview data obtained as part of a longitudinal study of students, aged 16-19, who completed a financial capability course in the UK. The analysis presents a set of cultural models or…
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Foreign Countries, Empowerment, Longitudinal Studies
Sepstrup, Preben; Olander, Folke – 1986
This paper presents a self-contained summary in English of the results of a research project conducted for the Nordic Council of Ministers to define problems, advantages, and disadvantages of the electronic dissemination of information for consumers, and to determine whether consumer organizations should adapt their information activities and…
Descriptors: Advertising, Behavior Theories, Consumer Education, Databases