Struggles for access to and participation in higher education have a long history and continue to present challenges across a range of contexts. Access invites critical debates at the intersection of higher education and inequalities of international interest and significance.
Part of the journal’s project is to engage an increasing diversity of voices, perspectives, theories and methodologies, critique the practices of research, writing and publication, and disrupt dominant forms of representation of and in the field.
Access applies broad understandings of equity issues, which includes how class, dis/ability, gender, geography, faith, nation, race and sexuality intersect. The journal is committed to extending the scope of exploration around questions of access, equity and widening participation including but also beyond admissions and entry. The changing shape of higher education foregrounds concerns with its fundamental purpose as a public institution and raises significant questions about access to what forms of higher education and for whom.
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News
A New Special Issue on Space, time and precarity in higher education: Exploring configurations of power and inequality in precarious times
A new Reflection 'Refugees as questioning subjects: A critical reflection of PhD fieldworkinvolving refugees'
A new Viewpoint 'Australia’s moral, legal and policy obligations to include people with intellectual disabilities in higher education' is now available.
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