{"id":2534,"date":"2016-04-25T15:45:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T15:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2534"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:57","slug":"diversity-in-he-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2016\/04\/25\/diversity-in-he-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversity in HE.  Or not&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radstats.org.uk\/no113\/Boliver113.pdf\">Lies, damned lies and statistics on widening access to Russell Group universities<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interesting article in the latest issue of Radical Statistic by Vikki Boliver which criticises the Russell Group <a href=\"http:\/\/russellgroup.ac.uk\/policy\/publications\/opening-doors-understanding-and-overcoming-the-barriers-to-university-access\/\">Opening Doors report<\/a> arguing that it is an illusion that the number of students from \u2018diverse backgrounds\u2019 has increased.\u00a0 Arguments are made on the basis of the types of statistical calculations used.<\/p>\n<p>Look for more statistics on Higher Education participation by social background on the Higher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hesa.ac.uk\/pis\/urg\">Education Statistics Agency database <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lies, damned lies and statistics on widening access to Russell Group universities Interesting article in the latest issue of Radical Statistic by Vikki Boliver which criticises the Russell Group Opening Doors report arguing that it is an illusion that the number of students from \u2018diverse backgrounds\u2019 has increased.\u00a0 Arguments are made on the basis of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[306,236,183,167,243],"class_list":["post-2534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-sociology","tag-diversity","tag-education","tag-higher-education","tag-social-class","tag-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2535,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions\/2535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}