Undergraduate language programmes in England: A widening participation crisis

Widening Participation in Higher Education

Higher education (HE) has the potential to be transformative: for individuals, local communities and for the wider society. The extent to which HE succeeds, however, depends on many factors. At a minimum, for higher education to transform lives, individuals from a wide range of backgrounds must apply to and participate in HE [1]. Certainly this has been the rhetoric of successive UK governments...

Working towards widening participation in nurse education.

The widening participation agenda has particular significance for worldwide nursing since it is a profession which is under increasing scrutiny in its recruitment and retention practices. Debate about this agenda within nurse education is strengthened by careful scrutiny of the research within the wider context of higher education, some of which challenges commonly held assumptions. This paper ...

Increasing or Widening Participation in Higher Education? — a European overview

e-Participation and Governance: Widening the net

As a solution to declining political and civic participation, many governments are seeking to increase the number of citizens who participate in policy-making and governance. Contrary to early expectations, recent research suggests that new information and communications technologies (ICTs) may not increase participation rates in formal organisations, and so may not improve participation rates....

Community Participation in Community-based Rehabilitation Programmes

Central to the community-based rehabilitation (CBR) approach is the concept of community participation. While many projects are based on the CBR approach, it is not evident how many CBR projects indeed use and measure community participation. The purpose of this study was to qualitatively analyse the extent of evaluation of community participation in CBR studies evaluated over the last thirty y...