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Baltaru, Roxana-Diana; Manac, Radu-Dragomir; Ivan, Miruna-Daniela – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
University rankings envision a level playing field between competing universities, particularly in higher education (HE) systems regulated along market lines. Drawing on social stratification theory, we argue that rankings exacerbate, rather than alleviate, resource inequalities between universities with historically consolidated reputations…
Descriptors: Colleges, Reputation, Status, Educational Finance
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Gill, Tim; Vidal Rodeiro, Carmen; Zanini, Nadir – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2018
Recently, there has been an increase in the Higher Education (HE) options (in terms of both courses and institutions) available to students in the UK. Given that the choice of institution and field of study are crucial for students' future careers, we investigated how attributes of the institutions and courses determine students' choices, and how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Graduates, STEM Education, Higher Education