Student experiences in and toward elite higher education

This CGHE webinar seminar series brings together senior and early career researchers to examine the promises and limits of elite higher education. Across four sessions, the series explores student experience, social mobility, institutional practice and educational aspiration across the UK, the US and Colombia.

The series brings together work on campus employment and classed opportunities at Harvard; students’ perceptions of merit and educational opportunity at Oxford; intergenerational hope and aspirations among British Pakistani and British Bangladeshi students and their families in relation to Oxbridge; and the costs and opportunities of social mobility through elite education in segregated Colombian society. Together, the series invites critical reflection on how educational opportunities are imagined, distributed and lived across different social and institutional contexts.

13 October – Pink Slips (For Some): Campus Employment, Social Class, and COVID-19

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20 October – Like rivers in the sky: cyclical hope toward education of British Pakistani and Bangladeshi families

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27 October – Perceiving Inequality, Preserving Selection: Elite University Students and the Distribution of Educational Opportunity in England

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3 November – Book presentation of costly opportunities

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