Access Means Inequality

Authors

  • Philip Altbach

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6017/ihe.2010.61.8510

Keywords:

Access and Equity, Massification,

Abstract

Expanding access would bring inequality to higher education. Institutions, while catering to unregulated mass access, provide vastly different quality, facilities, and focus than do elite institutions at the top, and this gulf has widened as access has expanded worldwide. Furthermore, mass higher education has, for a majority of students worldwide, lowered quality and increased dropout rates.

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Published

2010-03-25

How to Cite

Altbach, P. (2010). Access Means Inequality. International Higher Education, (61). https://doi.org/10.6017/ihe.2010.61.8510

Issue

No. 61: Fall 2010

Section

International

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