Widening Participation:Policy Options for Growing the Size of UK Higher Education
After the Second World War,the scale of higher education in the United Kingdom has become a huge obstacle to social development,and the government expects to crack the social development problem by promoting the growth of higher education scale so that higher education can better meet the needs of social development.The Robbins Report opened the path of promoting the growth of higher education scale through institutional expansion but influenced by the tradition and culture of the British society,the path of institutional expansion is in trouble.The Levehulerm Report paid attention to the structural imbalance of student groups in the growth of higher education and put forward the idea of solving the problem by expanding participation in higher education.With the introduction of the Dearing Report,the policy of expanding participation has been taken seriously by the government and gradually improved.In the 21st century,under the continuous promotion of government policies,the UK has achieved some success in widening participation,and the participation rates of different groups such as women,adults,ethnic minorities,and students from the lower strata of society have all increased.However,widening participation still faces challenges due to financial difficulties,higher tuition fee rates,higher costs of student participation,government restrictions on enrolment,and poor job market conditions.The British experience illustrates,to some extent,that the choice of pathways for growth in the scale of tertiary education is strongly home-grown in character.
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