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Risk, identity and change: Becoming a mature student (2001)
Journal Article
Baxter, A., & Britton, C. (2001). Risk, identity and change: Becoming a mature student. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 11(1), 87-104. https://doi.org/10.1080/09620210100200066

This article looks at the stories mature students tell about the risks of higher education, in terms of its effects on identity and the implications for relationships with their families and former friends. Two sources of risk are highlighted in thei... Read More about Risk, identity and change: Becoming a mature student.

Best Value and the politics of pragmatism (2001)
Journal Article
Hoggett, P., Maile, S., Maile, S., & Hoggett, P. (2001). Best Value and the politics of pragmatism. Policy and Politics, 29(4), 509-519. https://doi.org/10.1332/0305573012501503

This article frames and highlights critical themes emerging from the contributions to this Best Value section: that Best Value possesses subtle, and not so subtle, political, organisational, strategic and governmental dimensions. Drawing on these the... Read More about Best Value and the politics of pragmatism.

India: Makings of little cultural/media imperialism? (2001)
Journal Article
Sonwalkar, P. (2001). India: Makings of little cultural/media imperialism?. Gazette -Leiden then Deventer then Dordrecht then London-, 63(6), 505-519. https://doi.org/10.1177/0016549201063006003

An efflorescence of the media in India during the 1990s, mainly in television, has revolutionized the South Asian mediascape. After the novelty of foreign channels wore off in the early 1990s, Indian channels consolidated their position, recorded the... Read More about India: Makings of little cultural/media imperialism?.