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Higher Education Participation of Northern Irish Students 1
Author(s) -
Cormack Robert,
Osborne Robert
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
higher education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.976
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1468-2273
pISSN - 0951-5224
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2273.1994.tb01653.x
Subject(s) - irish , diversity (politics) , affirmative action , northern ireland , higher education , political science , work (physics) , public administration , advisory committee , index (typography) , economic growth , sociology , ethnology , law , economics , mechanical engineering , philosophy , linguistics , world wide web , computer science , engineering
Higher education in Britain displays a diversity of patterns of participation and provision. The establishment of funding councils for England, Scotland, Wales; together with the advisory body the Northern Ireland Higher Education Council (NIHEC), for Northern Ireland, will further increase this diversity. As these councils go about their work, a valuable exercise might be conducted by recording the patterns of participation in the early 1990s. Each council confronts a different tradition, with different levels of participation, and with somewhat different issues on their policy agenda. The NIHEC oversees a small two university system, with a high Northern Irish age participation index, and where affirmative action and equal opportunity measures have a particular prominence.