The attainment of ethnic minority students in UK higher education
By John T. E. Richardson. 2008
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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science
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In Education
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- Ron Johnston
- John T. E. Richardson
- S. May
- Adela García-Aracil
- Paul Ginns
- Sari Lindblom-Ylänne
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In Sociology and Political Science
Citations in the corpus
- Causes of differences in student outcomes (2015, background): “…recent UK literature reviews that focus on: student retention and success (Jones, 2008; Thomas, 2011); the attainment of minority ethnic groups (Richardson, 2008c; Singh, 2011); widening participation (Gorard et al., 2006; Moore et al., 2013); social class and higher education (Stevenson and…”
- The under-attainment of ethnic minority students in UK higher education: what we know and what we don’t know (2015, methodology): “Richardson (2008a) found that the trend for Asian and Black students to be less likely to obtain good degrees than White students was greater in older students than in younger students, greater in women than in men, and greater in some subjects than others.”
- Widening participation through admissions policy – a British case study of school and university performance (2011, background): “Although there are detailed variations within the heterogeneous ‘non-white’ ethnic groups, when aggregated these are ‘over-represented’ in British higher education compared to white students but they perform less well at university than their white peers, even when a variety of possible controls are”
- The impact of engagement with extracurricular activities on the student experience and graduate outcomes for widening participation populations (2011, background): “…has consistently shown that, despite increasing participation levels in Higher Education (HE), ethnic minority students are less likely to obtain a ‘good’ degree (2:1 or above) than their White counterparts (Broecke and Nicholls, 2007; Owen et al., 2000; Purcell et al., 2005; Richardson, 2008a).”