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Prof. Watson Article in The Conversation
Professor Matthew Watson has an article in The Conversation on widening participation.
This article was written following involvement in a Warwick workshop on social immobilities and access to university organised by Pro-Vice Chancellor Christina Hughes. It explores the relationship between higher education marketisation at the level of university income and attempts to enhance access to degree programmes for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. It was published to coincide with the release of new figures by the Higher Education Statistics Agency, arguing that the current policy is inattentive to class differences in attitudes to holding debt and therefore has hidden costs that operate against the stated objectives of policy.