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Overactive, overwrought or overdrawn? the role of personality in undergraduate financial knowledge, decision-making and debt (2011)
Journal Article
Harrison, N., & Chudry, F. (2011). Overactive, overwrought or overdrawn? the role of personality in undergraduate financial knowledge, decision-making and debt. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 35(2), 149-182. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2010.540080

The financial situation of undergraduate students remains a high-profile issue within the UK higher education sector, not least due to its perceived relationship with retention, well-being and success. This article probes this question from a new dir... Read More about Overactive, overwrought or overdrawn? the role of personality in undergraduate financial knowledge, decision-making and debt.

Have the changes introduced by the 2004 Higher Education Act made higher education admissions in England wider and fairer? (2011)
Journal Article
Harrison, N. (2011). Have the changes introduced by the 2004 Higher Education Act made higher education admissions in England wider and fairer?. Journal of Education Policy, 26(3), 449-468. https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2010.513742

'Widening participation' and 'fair access' have been contested policy areas in English higher education since at least the early 1990s. They were key facets of the 2003 White Paper - The Future of Higher Education - and the subsequent 2004 Higher Edu... Read More about Have the changes introduced by the 2004 Higher Education Act made higher education admissions in England wider and fairer?.

Participation rates in Aimhigher West: analysis and comparisons (2011)
Report
Harrison, N., & Cuthbert, R. (2011). Participation rates in Aimhigher West: analysis and comparisons

Two linked reports on widening participation in the Aimhigher West partnership area. These conclude, inter alia, that local factors such as school outcomes, labour market conditions and ethnic mix make a significant contribution to defining the high... Read More about Participation rates in Aimhigher West: analysis and comparisons.