Achieving Equity and Quality in Higher Education

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxiv

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2. Leadership for Institutional Change to Promote Diversity and Success

   • Liz Thomas

   Pages 1-23

3. Vertically Segregated Higher Education and the Life Course: Comparing Patterns Over 28 Years

   • Lesley Andres, Ashley Pullman

   Pages 25-49

4. Supporting Students’ Learning: The Power of the Student–Teacher Relationship

   • Debra Cureton, Phil Gravestock

   Pages 51-71

5. Facilitating the Success of Students from Low SES Backgrounds at Regional Universities Through Course Design, Teaching, and Staff Attributes

   • Marcia Devlin, Jade McKay

   Pages 73-95

6. A Case Study Using Developmental Education to Raise Equity and Maintain Standards

   • Michelle Hodara, Di Xu, Julie Petrokubi

   Pages 97-117

7. Vision 20:20 and Indigenous Health Workforce Development: Institutional Strategies and Initiatives to Attract Underrepresented Students into Elite Courses

   • Elana Taipapaki Curtis

   Pages 119-142

8. Social Inclusion or Social Engineering? The Politics and Reality of Widening Access to Medicine in the UK

   • Kirsty Alexander, Jennifer Cleland

   Pages 143-172

9. University Strategies to Improve the Academic Success of Disadvantaged Students: Three Experiences in Chile

   • Oscar Espinoza, Noel McGinn, Luis Eduardo González

   Pages 173-198

10. Widening Participation in Medicine in the UK

    • Paul Garrud, Clare Owen

    Pages 199-217

11. Affirmative Actions as an Instrument to Balance Access to Superior Education in Brazil: The Quotas Policy

    • Rubens Becak, Luis Felipe Cirino

    Pages 219-233

12. The Conundrum of Achieving Quality Higher Education in South Africa

    • Sadhana Manik, Labby Ramrathan

    Pages 235-260

13. Fees Regimes and Widening Access in the Four UK Nations: Are No-Fees Regimes Necessarily More Socially Inclusive?

    • Sheila Riddell, Elisabet Weedon

    Pages 261-286

14. High Status Professions, Their Related Degrees and the Social Construction of ‘Quality’

    • Erica Southgate, Susan Grimes, Jarrad Cox

    Pages 287-306

15. How Can Contextualised Admissions Widen Participation?

    • Stephen Gorard, Vikki Boliver, Nadia Siddiqui

    Pages 307-326

16. Governmental Supports for Students in Turkey: Beneficiary Perspective on the Use of Financial and Social Support in Higher Education

    • Yasar Kondakci, Kadir Beycioglu, Yusuf İkbal Oldac, Hanife Hilal Senay

    Pages 327-348

17. Back Matter

    Pages 349-356

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Across the world, higher education is witnessing exponential growth in both student participation and types of educational providers. One key phenomenon of this growth is an increase in student diversity: governments are widening access to higher education for students from traditionally underrepresented groups. However, this raises questions about whether this rapid growth may in face compromise academic quality. This book presents case studies of how higher education institutions in diverse countries are maintaining academic excellence while increasing the access and participation of students from historically underrepresented backgrounds. Including case studies spanning four continents, the authors and editors examine whether increasing widening participation positively impacts upon academic quality. This volume will be of interest and value to students and scholars of global higher education, representation and participation in education, and quality in higher education.

• equity aspirations
• marketization of higher education
• student diversity
• academic quality
• course design
• widening participation
• quality in higher education

“This volume provides much needed context for anyone invested in higher education (staff, faculty, lobbyists, politicians, nonprofits, and anyone committed to equity in education, and social justice).” (Katherine Cronin Daley, The Wabash Center Journal On Teaching, Vol. 1 (3), 2020)

• Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Australia

  Mahsood Shah

• Deakin University, Burwood, Australia

  Jade McKay

Mahsood Shah is the Deputy Dean, Learning and Teaching and Associate Professor with School of Business and Law at Central Queensland University, Australia. In this role, he provides leadership in all aspects of learning and teaching including strategy and governance, policy implementation, course development and reviews, accreditations, maintenance of standards, enhancing the quality of teaching, innovation in the use of learning technologies, and professional development of academic staff. His research expertise includes quality in higher education, student experience, student engagement and retention, widening participation, private higher education, and international education.


Jade McKay is a Research Fellow at Deakin University, Australia. Her research interests encompass inclusive teaching and learning approaches that facilitate the success of non-traditional students.

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