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Direct linkTroiano, Helena; Elias, Marina – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2014
University expansion in higher education has been hierarchically differentiated. There is some concentration of certain social profiles in some degrees of study, so social composition between degrees can vary considerably. This article describes in terms of social composition 10 degrees of four public universities in the metropolitan area of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Expectation, Student Educational Objectives, Public Colleges
Spiegler, Thomas; Bednarek, Antje – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2013
In the course of educational expansion, student populations have become more diverse. This paper represents an international literature review on the topic of first-generation students (FGS), i.e. students whose parents have not obtained a higher education qualification. On the basis of more than 70 research articles and reports on FGS from…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Higher Education, Nontraditional Education, Foreign Countries
