You got into Oxbridge? Under-represented students' experiences of an elite university in the south of England.

Autor/inn/en	Stubbs, Joshua E.; Murphy, Emily C.
Titel	You got into Oxbridge? Under-represented students' experiences of an elite university in the south of England.
Quelle	In: Higher education quarterly, 74 (2020) 4, S. 516-530Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0263-9769; 0951-5224; 1468-2273
DOI	10.1111/hequ.12251
Schlagwörter	Lehre; Wettbewerb; Studium; Hochschule; Student; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	Amid concerns about the skewed socio-demographic composition of England's elite universities, this study sought to better understand what undergraduates from underrepresented backgrounds found supportive in the process of them gaining an offer of admission from a prestigious university, and their social and academic experience of higher education. Twelve undergraduates who selfidentified as originating from underrepresented backgrounds participated in semistructured interviews. Participants needed to experience explicit validation of their academic capabilities at national level, and of their (localised) social identities, before considering Oxbridge a viable institution for 'people like them'; in other words, these students engaged in their own form of benchmarking depending on their school setting. On entering higher education, some participants experienced being 'alienated' from certain social and academic spaces on the basis that many other students already 'seemed to know each other'. Findings suggest that the application process to more prestigious universities could be prioritised at earlier stages of education among under-represented groups, and that widening participation initiatives cannot simply stop at entrance to higher education. (HRK / Abstract übernommen).
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Update	2021/2