Higher Education in Scotland and the UK: Diverging or Converging Systems?
Sheila Riddell
Nov 2015 · Edinburgh University Press
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This book examines the impact of devolution on Scottish and UK higher education systems, including institutional governance, approaches to tuition fees and student support, cross-border student flows, widening access, internationalisation and research policy.
About the author
Sheila Riddell is Director of the Centre for Research in Education Inclusion and Diversity at the Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh. She previously worked as Director of the Strathclyde Centre for Disability Research, University of Glasgow. Her research interests are in the broad field of equality and social inclusion, with particular reference to gender, social class and disability in the fields of education, training, employment and social care. She is the co-author of Resolving Disputes about Special Educational Needs: A Comparative Perspective on Special Educational Needs, Ashgate 2011. From the APF Sheila Riddell is Director of the Centre for Research in Education Inclusion and Diversity at the University of Edinburgh (www.creid.ed.ac.uk) and was previously Director of the Strathclyde Centre for Disability Research at the University of Glasgow. Her work explores themes of social justice and equality across a range of policy fields including education, social care and employment.
Elisabet Weedon is Deputy Director and a Senior Research Fellow of the Centre for Research in Education Inclusion and Diversity at the Moray House School of Education University of Edinburgh. Her main research interests are in the area of further and higher education, equality and social justice in education. She has worked on a range of research projects including studies of lifelong learning across Europe, disabled students in higher education and workplace learning.
Sarah Minty is a Research Fellow at CREID, Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh. She has particular interests in social justice and policy evaluation and has undertaken research in the school, vocational and higher education sectors. Sarah is currently working on a number of projects relating to higher education funding and access, and exploring how student finance affects young people's higher education choices.
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