TY - JOUR
T1 - Diversity and social integration on higher education campuses in India and the UK : student and staff perspectives
AU - Thornton, M.E.
AU - Bricheno, P.
AU - Iyer, P.
AU - Reid, I.
AU - Wankhede, G.
AU - Green, R.
N1 - Original article can be found at : http://www.tandf.co.uk/ Copyright Taylor & Francis
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - This paper reports findings from the first year of a UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI), 'Widening participation: Diversity, isolation or integration in Higher Education?' Over a three-year period this project will explore issues of diversity and integration, social cohesion and separation, equality and discrimination as experienced by students and staff on higher education (HE) campuses in India and the UK. Initial findings suggest that separation of groups on the HE campuses studied is pervasive and ubiquitous. While some such separation may be for supportive reasons, convenience, or inertia, at other times it is due to overt discrimination on the grounds of race, region, nationality, caste, class, religion, age or gender. However, most respondents said that greater integration was both desirable and possible.
AB - This paper reports findings from the first year of a UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI), 'Widening participation: Diversity, isolation or integration in Higher Education?' Over a three-year period this project will explore issues of diversity and integration, social cohesion and separation, equality and discrimination as experienced by students and staff on higher education (HE) campuses in India and the UK. Initial findings suggest that separation of groups on the HE campuses studied is pervasive and ubiquitous. While some such separation may be for supportive reasons, convenience, or inertia, at other times it is due to overt discrimination on the grounds of race, region, nationality, caste, class, religion, age or gender. However, most respondents said that greater integration was both desirable and possible.
KW - higher education
KW - diversity
KW - integration
KW - India
KW - UK
KW - widening participation
U2 - 10.1080/13596741003790682
DO - 10.1080/13596741003790682
M3 - Article
SN - 1359-6748
VL - 15
SP - 159
EP - 176
JO - Research in Post-Compulsory Education
JF - Research in Post-Compulsory Education
IS - 2
ER -