Enhancing Equity in Higher Education - Are we making progress?
09 February 2010
18:00 to 20:30 , Room AG07, College Building, City University London, 280 St John Street, London EC1V 4PB
Professor Geoff Whitty
What progress has been made on 'widening participation' and 'fair access' over the last ten years? Is current policy and practice working?
In this lecture Geoff Whitty will examine the New Labour policies designed to have an impact on higher education participation. He will present some of the key research findings in this area and discuss what this research tells us about the current patterns of participation. The focus will be on the barriers to participation and how they might be addressed.
He will conclude by outlining what the next steps should be in both research and policy in order to make significant progress in widening participation and fair access.
Geoff Whitty is Director of the Institute of Education, University of London – a leading centre for education and social research. He taught in primary and secondary schools before lecturing at Bath University, King's College London, Bristol Polytechnic and Goldsmiths College. His main areas of teaching and research are the sociology of education, education policy and teacher education.
Geoff is a specialist advisor to the House of Commons Children, Schools and Families Committee and immediate past President of the British Educational Research Association and the College of Teachers. He recently became the first recipient of the Lady Plowden Memorial Medal for outstanding services to education.
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