Access and Expansion Post-Massification Opportunities and Barriers to Further Growth in Higher Education Participation.

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Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Series Editors' Introduction; 1 Access to Higher Education; The Public Value of Further Massification of Higher Education; From Elite to Universal Higher Education: Increasing Diversity; Further Massification Increases Policy Complexity; Structure of the Book; References; Part I Institutional Diversity; 2 Access, Equity and the Participation of Disadvantaged Groups; Three Policy-Theory Debates and Dilemmas; Expansion and its Effects; Universal Access as a Concept and Category.

Interventions and Their ReachLow Policy and the Passage to Mass Higher Education; Differential Expansion and Binary Abolition; Demography, Efficient Expansion and a Widening of Access; Demand-Led Growth and its Outcomes for Participation; High Policy and the Drive to Near-Universal Access; Outreach, Recruitment, and Retention; A Special Mission for Further Education Colleges; A 50 Per Cent Participation Target and a New Flagship Qualification; Fair Admissions, Fee Deregulation, and an Access Regulator; Progress and Appraisal; Policies for Widening Participation 1997-2010.

A Strategy for Access and Student Success in a Public-Private SystemReferences; 3 Government Policies as Responses to Increased Demand for Higher Education; Introduction; Higher Education Expansion in Growing Asian Economies; Major Trends in Governments' Responses to Increased Access; Privatisation of Public Higher Education; Promotion of Private Higher Education; Opportunities and Barriers; Cost-Sharing; Institutional Diversity; Autonomy; Quality and Efficiency; Private-Public Interfaces on Access: A Public Policy Revisit; Notes; References; 4 Digital Players in an Analogue World.

IntroductionThe New Providers in the Private Sector; The Case of Poland; Digital Players in the Analogue World; Restoring Social Legitimacy; Epilogue; Notes; References; Part II System Strategy and Transparency; 5 California; The Master Plan Era; The Golden Era for Higher Education in the Golden State: the 1960s; Seeds of Change: the Reagan and Brown Years; Proposition 13 and its Aftermath; The 'Roller Coaster' Economy and its Effects on Higher Education; The Great Recession and its Aftermath; Implications of 'Cohort Crowding'; Conclusion; Notes; References.

6 The Effect of Rankings on Student Choice and Institutional SelectionWidening Access and Selective Excellence; Student Choice and Rankings; Institutional Selection; Does Selective Excellence Widen Inequality?; Notes; References; Webography; Part III Student Financing and Equity Policies; 7 Student Funding and the Social Dimension in Croatian Higher Education; Setting the Context; Equity and Access in Croatian Higher Education; The Social Profile of Students Accessing Croatian Higher Education; Social Aspects of Study Completion.

Tuition Fees and Student Support in Croatia from an Equity Perspective.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Series Editors' Introduction -- 1 Access to Higher Education -- The Public Value of Further Massification of Higher Education -- From Elite to Universal Higher Education: Increasing Diversity -- Further Massification Increases Policy Complexity -- Structure of the Book -- References -- Part I Institutional Diversity -- 2 Access, Equity and the Participation of Disadvantaged Groups -- Three Policy-Theory Debates and Dilemmas -- Expansion and its Effects -- Universal Access as a Concept and Category -- Interventions and Their Reach -- Low Policy and the Passage to Mass Higher Education -- Differential Expansion and Binary Abolition -- Demography, Efficient Expansion and a Widening of Access -- Demand-Led Growth and its Outcomes for Participation -- High Policy and the Drive to Near-Universal Access -- Outreach, Recruitment, and Retention -- A Special Mission for Further Education Colleges -- A 50 Per Cent Participation Target and a New Flagship Qualification -- Fair Admissions, Fee Deregulation, and an Access Regulator -- Progress and Appraisal -- Policies for Widening Participation 1997-2010 -- A Strategy for Access and Student Success in a Public-Private System -- References -- 3 Government Policies as Responses to Increased Demand for Higher Education -- Introduction -- Higher Education Expansion in Growing Asian Economies -- Major Trends in Governments' Responses to Increased Access -- Privatisation of Public Higher Education -- Promotion of Private Higher Education -- Opportunities and Barriers -- Cost-Sharing -- Institutional Diversity -- Autonomy -- Quality and Efficiency -- Private-Public Interfaces on Access: A Public Policy Revisit -- Notes -- References -- 4 Digital Players in an Analogue World -- Introduction.