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Higher education, economic inequality and social mobility: Implications for emerging East Asia

Marginson, S; (2017) Higher education, economic inequality and social mobility: Implications for emerging East Asia. International Journal of Educational Development 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2017.03.002. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

Higher education systems in the Chinese civilizational zone (East Asia) are rapidly improving in quantity and quality, associated with the growth of middle classes and absolute social mobility. But are they contributing to more equal opportunities between students with different backgrounds, and greater relative social mobility? The article reviews the case of the United States, where expansion of the middle-class growth and social mobility via education in the 1950s/1970s was followed in the 1980s and after by a marked increase in inequality in incomes and higher education, and less social mobility. Will this same reversal occur in China and Korea?

Type: Article
Title: Higher education, economic inequality and social mobility: Implications for emerging East Asia
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2017.03.002
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2017.03.002
Language: English
Additional information: This manuscript version is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Non-derivative 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non-commercial use providing author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. Further details about CC BY licenses are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/. Access may be initially restricted by the publisher.
Keywords: Higher education; Participation; Educational equality; Social mobility; United States; China
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1546661
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