Raising aspirations and higher education: Evidence from the United Kingdom's widening participation policy

L Rizzica - Journal of Labor Economics, 2020 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper investigates the relationship between aspirations and inequality in higher
education participation. Using a regression discontinuity design, I evaluate the impact of a …

Marketing participation? Student ambassadors' contribution to widening participation schemes in engineering and medicine at two contrasting universities.

C Gartland - Journal of widening participation and lifelong learning, 2013 - oars.uos.ac.uk
Under New Labour administrations, employing student ambassadors for widening
participation (WP) outreach work became popular with higher education institutions (HEIs) …

[PDF][PDF] Changing the conversation: Impact of a seminar-based classroom innovation on student perceptions of engineering

DJ Follmer, SE Zappe, ED Gomez… - International Journal …, 2017 - researchgate.net
Examination of student perceptions of engineering has the potential to elucidate factors that
affect enrollment and retention in engineering fields. The main goal of this study was to …