Book review: Managing and supporting student diversity in higher education (2014; Benson, R., Heagney, M., Hewitt, L., Crosling, G. & Devos, A.; Elsevier)

Author First name, Last name, Institution

Susan Jones, Zayed University

Document Type

Article

Source of Publication

Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Gulf Perspectives

Publication Date

8-31-2014

Abstract

In the 21 century many countries have expressed a need to increase the level of education of their populations in order to compete in the knowledge economies of the future. This means increasing access to higher education for a greater percentage of the population, often driven by new educational policies. But regardless of whether these decisions are based on economic necessity or social consciousness, the end result is more inclusive education: education systems that are open to wider segments of the local population, as well as attractive to a growing pool of globally mobile international students. The result is that universities have to be prepared to support increasing numbers of students who do not fit the 'traditional' definition of university students as middle class young people with a strong, often urban, secondary education.

DOI Link

10.18538/lthe.v11.n2.179

ISSN

2077-5504

Volume

11

Issue

2

First Page

142

Last Page

146

Disciplines

Education

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Jones, Susan, "Book review: Managing and supporting student diversity in higher education (2014; Benson, R., Heagney, M., Hewitt, L., Crosling, G. & Devos, A.; Elsevier)" (2014). All Works. 739.
https://zuscholars.zu.ac.ae/works/739

Indexed in Scopus

no

Open Access

yes

Open Access Type

Gold: This publication is openly available in an open access journal/series