SOC 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Tertiary Education Fees In Australia, Hidden Curriculum, Henry Giroux

• School: Binghamton University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 100A
• Professor: Prof. P

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In higher education the socio-economic inequality is evident in access or participation rates rather than performance (i. e. if you are lucky enough to get to university, you have a fair chance of success). As reported in a major study on access and equity: People from low ses backgrounds are significantly under-represented in. In broadbrush terms using the available data, people from low ses backgrounds are about one-third as likely as people from high ses backgrounds to participate in higher education. Student fees and hecs debt are a major barrier for students from low income families in attending university (james, bexley, devlin, & marginson, 2007). Students from low income families are half as likely as their higher socio-economic counterparts to attend university (ferrier, 2006). Students from low income families who do attend university are less likely to attend the traditional sandstones" and less likely to undertake status" courses such as medicine or law (james et al. , 2007).