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Pt 1: What Are The Issues? -- Introduction To The Dilemmas Of Widening Participation In Higher Education -- Pt 2: What Does The Research Tell Us? -- Policy Contexts: Differentiation, Competition And Policies For Widening Participation -- Access, Participation And Diversity Questions In Relation To Different Forms Of Post-compulsory Further And Higher Education -- Pedagogies For Social Diversity And Difference -- Outcomes In Terms Of Age-based Participation -- Pt 3: What Are The Overall Inplications For Both Policy And Research? -- What Are The Overall Findings And Implications For Evidence-based Policies On Fair Access And Widening Participation? -- How Do We Improve Learning By Widening Participation In Higher Education?: Institutional Practices And Pedagogies For Social Diversity -- Universal Access And Dual Regimes Of Further And Higher Education (the Furtherhigher Project) -- Widening Participation In Higher Education: A Quantitative Analysis -- Socio-cultural And Learning Experiences Of Working-class Students -- Degrees Of Success: Learners' Transitions From Vocational Education And Training To Higher Education -- Keeping Open The Door To Mathematically Demanding Programmes In Further And Higher Education -- Learning And Teaching For Social Diversity And Difference In Higher Education -- 'non-participation' In Higher Education: Decision-making As Embedded Social Practice. Edited By Miriam David... [et Al.]. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [228]-248) And Index.