Two dominant rationales are offered by UK policymakers for the continued expansion of
higher education: to service the high-skill labour requirements of a knowledge economy …

Bringing together the most recent empirical evidence and the latest theoretical debates, this
fully revised new edition gets to grips with a broad range of inequalities in people's lives …

This paper is based on research amongst women living in England who are on the margins
of the labour market. It analyses why current policy works so inadequately for this group of …

Professor Ailsa McKay, who was known not only for her work as a feminist economist but
also her influence on Scottish social and economic policy, died in 2014 at the height of her …

Australian families work and raise children in different contexts from those of families 50 or
even 30 years ago. Technology, globalisation, flexible and deregulated labour markets, and …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to outline the impact of partnership and family‐
building on the aspirations, expectations and orientations to work of a sample of highly …

Under New Labour administrations, employing student ambassadors for widening
participation (WP) outreach work became popular with higher education institutions (HEIs) …

El incremento en el número de plazas en la educación superior no significa necesariamente
ampliar el acceso a una gama más amplia de grupos sociales. El Reino Unido ha intentado …

This chapter demonstrates how the set of options defining the current means-tested Social
Assistance system in the UK can be identified as the cause of many current problems, often …