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Baker, Zoe; Harrison, Neil; Stevenson, Jacqueline; Wakeling, Paul – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2022
Those who have spent time in state care as children, and are therefore 'care-experienced', are known to have lower life chances than the general population. While we know that care-experienced young people are significantly underrepresented in Higher Education nationally and internationally, little is known about their progression to postgraduate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foster Care, Graduate Study, Student Adjustment
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Baker, Zoe – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2019
Official policy texts in England have long assumed that students make their Higher Education choices in an individualized, rational and context-free manner. Under the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition government (2010-2015), a greater emphasis was placed on accomplishing higher levels of widening participation in elite institutions. Those…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Higher Education, Adult Education, Foreign Countries