Access and Participation in Irish Higher Education

1. Introduction
Ted Fleming, Andrew Loxley, Fergal Finnegan

Part I. Introduction: Trends, Policies, Processes and Practices of Access

2. Key Trends in Irish Higher Education and the Emergence and Development of Access
Ted Fleming, Andrew Loxley, Fergal Finnegan

3. Access and Widening Participation – Stories from the Policy Domain
Andrew Loxley, Fergal Finnegan, Ted Fleming

4. Routes in: Access Categories, Mechanisms and Processes
Andrew Loxley, Fergal Finnegan, Ted Fleming

5. The Purpose of Access: Equality, Social Mobility and the Knowledge Economy
Fergal Finnegan, Ted Fleming, Andrew Loxley

Part II. Research and Policy on Access Students: Experiences, Intersections and Gaps

6. Working Class Access to Higher Education: Structures, Experiences and Categories
Fergal Finnegan

7. Moving to Higher Education: Opportunities and Barriers Experienced by People with Disabilities
Michael Shevlin, Conor McGuckin, Sheena Bell, Cristina Devecchi

8. Mature Students’ in Irish Higher Education
Mark Kearns

9. Gendered Experiences of Non-traditional Students in Irish Higher Education
Bernie Grummell, Rose Ryan

10. Part-Time and Flexible Learning in Irish Higher Education
Nuala Hunt

Part III. Introduction: Teaching, Learning and Retention

11. Learning and Teaching and Non-traditional Students in Higher Education
Andrew Loxley, Ted Fleming, Fergal Finnegan

12. Retention in Ireland’s Higher Education Institutions
Ted Fleming, Fergal Finnegan, Andrew Loxley

13. Towards a Conclusion
Ted Fleming, Fergal Finnegan, Andrew Loxley

Keywords: Education, Higher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education, Education Policy, Sociology of Education