1998
DOI: 10.1080/0962021980020018
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Throwing your brains at it: Higher education, markets and choice

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“…Much recent research has emphasised the hierarchical nature of the higher education market (Brooks, 2005;Pugsley, 2004;Reay et al, 2001b) and the importance of institutional status to graduate recruiters (Dugdale, 1997;Hesketh, 2000). However, studies that have focused more explicitly on young people's perceptions have suggested that there are strong disparities between confident 'embedded choosers' (Ball et al, 2002), with significant amounts of cultural capital to draw upon, who are aware of fine distinctions between the status of different institutions, and their less confident peers -'contingent choosers' with no family experience of HE -who are likely to see all institutions as fairly homogenous and exclusive 'ivory towers' (Pugsley, 1998).…”
Section: The Interface Between Higher Education and Lifelong Learningmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Much recent research has emphasised the hierarchical nature of the higher education market (Brooks, 2005;Pugsley, 2004;Reay et al, 2001b) and the importance of institutional status to graduate recruiters (Dugdale, 1997;Hesketh, 2000). However, studies that have focused more explicitly on young people's perceptions have suggested that there are strong disparities between confident 'embedded choosers' (Ball et al, 2002), with significant amounts of cultural capital to draw upon, who are aware of fine distinctions between the status of different institutions, and their less confident peers -'contingent choosers' with no family experience of HE -who are likely to see all institutions as fairly homogenous and exclusive 'ivory towers' (Pugsley, 1998).…”
Section: The Interface Between Higher Education and Lifelong Learningmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The above data show that middle class students with high levels of cultural capital are overrepresented in high status university departments in Greece. For these students going to university and a high status department is part of a 'normal biography' (Ball et al, 2002) and going to university is a 'taken for granted' decision (Pugsley, 1998). By contrast, working class students seem to be overrepresented in lower status university departments (Figure 1).…”
Section: Father's Educationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Pugsley (1998) found that workingclass parents could contribute little to their children's choice of university. Reay et al (2001) demonstrated that location was a factor that restricted the choices of university that working-class students could make due to limited finances, while Brooks (2008) indicated that a desire to be close to their working-class roots increased the tendency to choose local institutions.…”
Section: Welfare Consumerism and Higher Educationmentioning
confidence: 99%