Size, Shape and Widening Participation

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Size, Shape and Widening Participation

• Gareth Parry
• University of Sheffield

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Three comparative dimensions

• 1. growth trajectories
• 2. changing shapes
• 3. policy priorities
• for widening participation
• for HE in FE
• (with cautions and caveats)

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Who Took the Peak Expansion?
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Changing Shape 1980-2005 England
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Changing Shape 1980-2005 Scotland
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Changing Shape 1980-2005 Wales
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Policy push widening access and participation

• Common components
• stimulating and shaping demand
• funding for access and retention
• delivering in college and work settings
• securing articulation and progression

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Higher education college contributions

• Four functions
• qualifying (for initial entry)
• providing (in their own name or on behalf of
  another)
• transfer (beyond the short-cycle)
• returning

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England dynamic differentiation without formal
stratification?

• changing and steering demand
• a new exit and transfer qualification
• overlapping missions and sector regimes
• plural funding and assorted provision
• competition and collaboration
• proposed awarding powers

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Scotland tertiary collaboration with a division
of labour?

• (near) separate missions
• (revised) established qualifications
• direct funding
• critical mass
• progression as transfer
• joint strategies

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Wales cross-sector partnership on a single model?

• highest priority
• indirect funding
• old and new qualifications
• small to medium pockets

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Rejoinders

• Universal Access and Dual Regimes of Further and
  Higher Education
• (The FurtherHigher Project)
• www.sheffield.ac.uk/furtherhigher