Samanta, N. and Stewart, A. (2023) Phase 3 Report : institutional initiatives to support informed choice in accessing higher education : implementing a taster day in government colleges in Haryana, India. Coventry, UK: University of Warwick.
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Abstract
Phases 1 and 2 of the FCF project identified the social inequalities that influence educational choices and the decision of whether to access HE (Henderson et al., 2021; Thomas and Henderson, 2022). They highlighted the key role played by families in Haryana in influencing the HE choices of young women and men.
These earlier phases also established that Government Colleges in Haryana are providing educational opportunities for first generation students whose parents (and wider family members) have little or no experience of HE and access to very limited sources of information within their social settings. Students thus often lack reliable information and support in navigating HE choices.
The need for HE policy responses which recognise that these social, cultural, and economic disadvantages deeply affect access to HE is now widely recognised. ‘Widening Participation’ programmes conducted within Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have a key role to play as policy interventions to ensure greater diversity and inclusion among the student body. Evidence from a number of countries suggests that open-days are one of the most effective outreach strategies to enable knowledge of and access to HE (Connor et al., 1999; Briggs and Wilson, 2007; Reay, 2016).
This Phase 3 study examined the role of Government Colleges in mitigating the lack of accurate, relevant, formal knowledge, and information available to young women, young men, and their families. In particular, it involved working in partnership with local colleges to develop, implement, and evaluate a ‘Taster Day’, as a specific form of outreach activity.
The research asked four research questions:
1. What role do public institutions currently play, if any, in enabling gendered access to higher education in Haryana?
2. What are the institutional attitudes towards carrying out outreach in Haryana?
3. Does the development and delivery of an outreach activity contribute towards the development of an institutional culture of outreach and if so how?
4. What impact does the delivery of this outreach activity have on differently positioned young women and men and their access to higher education?
The study therefore explored the role of Government Colleges as local hubs of knowledge about HE for first generation of students and their families and consequently as facilitators of informed choice.
| Item Type: | Report |
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| Subjects: | L Education > LC Special aspects of education |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law |
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Education, Higher -- India -- Decision making, Educational equalization -- India, Higher education and state -- India |
| Publisher: | University of Warwick |
| Place of Publication: | Coventry, UK |
| Official Date: | March 2023 |
| Dates: | Date Event March 2023 Published 1 March 2023 Accepted |
| Status: | Not Peer Reviewed |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons open licence) |
| Description: | Report for 'A Fair Chance for Education: Gendered Pathways to Educational Success in Haryana' research project. In addition to this report, other resources about the project are available on the project website: www.warwick.ac.uk/haryana. This includes various Project Outputs such as project reports and presentations, as well as other information about the project and the people involved. |
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 30 May 2023 |
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 30 May 2023 |
| RIOXX Funder/Project Grant: | Project/Grant ID RIOXX Funder Name Funder ID UNSPECIFIED Fair Chance Foundation UNSPECIFIED |
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| URI: | https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/175560/ |
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