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Institutional Frameworks and Structural Factors Relating to Educational Access across Europe
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Biggart, Andy; Järvinen, Tero; Parreira do Amaral, Marcelo – European Education, 2015
In this article institutional and structural factors relating to access to education are assessed. First, the macro frameworks of institutional regulation that exert influence on the educational trajectories of young Europeans are demonstrated. Based on different aspects of these frameworks and drawing from extant research, the article presents a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Educational Practices, Classification
From System Expansion to System Contraction: Access to Higher Education in Poland
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Kwiek, Marek – Comparative Education Review, 2013
Access to higher education in Poland is changing due to the demography of smaller cohorts of potential students. Following a demand-driven educational expansion after the collapse of communism in 1989, the higher education system is now contracting. Such expansion/contraction and growth/decline in European higher education has rarely been…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Foreign Countries, Social Change
Selection at School and Access to Higher Education in Poland.
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Admaski, Wladyslaw; Bialecki, Ireneusz – European Journal of Education, 1981
Trends in the social origins, with respect to level and type of education, of Polish students are identified. It is suggested that these trends are probably more the result of self-selection than of selection based on objective school assessment. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Educational Opportunities, Foreign Countries