{"title":"Reproducing Social Equality across the Generations: The Nordic Model of High Participation Higher Education in Finland","authors":"J. Välimaa, R. Muhonen","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198828877.003.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198828877.003.0013","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter provides a detailed and extensive assessment of Finland’s high participation system (HPS) of higher education, in a historical perspective and with focus on Finland’s core values of equality and equity. The country case challenges some of the HPS propositions. The Nordic model is built upon a distinctive cultural tradition in which the state administers a social consensus based on solidarity, equality, and trust, and higher education is of high quality and has equal esteem. Since World War II equality of opportunity has been central in national policymaking. The chapter focuses especially on the nature of access to higher education and continuing binary diversity between the university sector and the Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS, the former polytechnics) .While there is continuing social competition for access to elite professional programmes, and cultural capital provides certain families with advantages, the Finnish HPS is less competitive and stratified than other HPS.","PeriodicalId":434618,"journal":{"name":"High Participation Systems of Higher Education","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133427418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Regulated Isomorphic Competition and the Middle Layer of Institutions: High Participation Higher Education in Australia","authors":"S. Marginson","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780198828877.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780198828877.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter provides a detailed and extensive assessment of Australia’s high participation systems (HPS) of higher education, in terms of the HPS propositions in relation to governance, horizontal diversity, vertical stratification, and equity. The propositions generally fit the country case. In Australia, the state has created a symbiotic relationship between the growth of participation and neo-liberal competition. Higher education institutions of all types within this system are impelled to grow, facilitating and legitimating expanding social demand for places. Australia’s ‘unified national system’ is a state regulated quasi market in which public universities carry out commercial activity, rather than a producer-driven commercial market. Social competition between families has been modified by standardized tuition charges and especially by income-contingent loans, and the government carefully sustains a large middle layer of universities that are competitive in the global market for fee-paying students. However, the hierarchy between artisanal and demand-responsive institutions remains steep.","PeriodicalId":434618,"journal":{"name":"High Participation Systems of Higher Education","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115744715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conclusions: High Participation Higher Education in the Post-Trow Era","authors":"B. Cantwell, S. Marginson, A. Smolentseva","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780198828877.003.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780198828877.003.0016","url":null,"abstract":"The concluding chapter takes stock of the book’s core notion of high participation systems (HPS) of higher education, in the context of the eight country studies and seventeen HPS propositions. The propositions engender extensive, though not unanimous, support. Declining institutional diversity and more complex governance are broadly agreed, but Finland and Norway differ from the other cases in stratification and equity. The HPS theory and findings are compared and contrasted with Martin Trow’s seminal work. The book ends with a central and enduring tension in HPS. Higher education as self-formation empowers individual agency in HPS on a larger and more inclusive scale. Yet, in HPS those without higher education are more disadvantaged; the average graduate has less social and occupational distinction; and secular tendencies to intensive competition for elite education and institutional bifurcation lead to greater inequality in educational and social outcomes, unless Nordic-style values are sustained.","PeriodicalId":434618,"journal":{"name":"High Participation Systems of Higher Education","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129033180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Governance","authors":"B. Cantwell, Rómulo Pinheiro, M. Kwiek","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198828877.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198828877.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter finds that governance is necessarily complex in high participation systems (HPS) of higher education and discusses actual governance arrangements. Extensive social entanglement de-activates the boundaries that separate higher education from other social relations. Assuming these conditions hold for all HPS, three prepositions are advanced. The first posits that HPS are governed through complex, multi-level coordination and accountability processes. The second claims that governance involves the management of institutional differentiation. The third predicts that higher education intuitions develop robust corporate capacities to manage the more complex demands to which they are subjected. Although common conditions, as expressed through the propositions, are assumed to hold across all HPS, the chapter recognizes that no two systems of higher education have the same governance arraignments, and considers various national contingencies.","PeriodicalId":434618,"journal":{"name":"High Participation Systems of Higher Education","volume":"523 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123205864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}