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Reimagining Student Equity and Aspiration in a Global Higher Education Field

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Equality in Education

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Widening participation in higher education (HE) is now a key ambition of government policy in many countries around the globe. For most OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) nations, expanding HE provision is the policy instrument for producing more knowledge workers, needed to gain a competitive advantage in the global knowledge economy, particularly in the wake of losing industrial economic dominance to China, India and other rapidly developing nations (Spence, 2011: xv).

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    Trevor Gale

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Gale, T. (2014). Reimagining Student Equity and Aspiration in a Global Higher Education Field. In: Zhang, H., Chan, P.W.K., Boyle, C. (eds) Equality in Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-692-9_2

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