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Inequalities in Undergraduate Participation and Performance in Irish Higher Education
- Source :
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Higher Education Quarterly . 2024 78(3):656-679. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- This paper focuses on two aspects of gender inequality in Irish higher education: inequality in participation by gender and inequality of performance by gender, institution and subject. We use a rich set of data from the Higher Education Authority of Ireland which detail inter alia enrolment in institutions of higher education--Universities and Institutes of Technology--and record the class of degree received by graduating students, by subject and gender. The first aspect was the participation of women. Although more women enrolled as full-time undergraduates in universities than did men, the reverse was the case in the Institutes of Technology. This had much to do with the subject structure of universities vis-à-vis the Institutes of Technology in tandem with the subject preferences of women and men. The second issue was inequality in performance. A major conclusion of this paper is that "after" enrolment there was little difference between the success rates of women and men in receiving first-class degrees in the different subjects but there was considerable difference between the institutions.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0951-5224 and 1468-2273
- Volume :
- 78
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Higher Education Quarterly
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ1431943
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Reports - Research
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12476