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"It's so much easier to go with what's easy": "Mindfulness" and the discourse between home and international students in the United Kingdom (2009)
Journal Article
Peacock, N., & Harrison, N. (2009). "It's so much easier to go with what's easy": "Mindfulness" and the discourse between home and international students in the United Kingdom. Journal of Studies in International Education, 13(4), 487-508. https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315308319508

A recent aspect of U.K. higher education has been the internationalisation of university campuses, driven by a rapid increase in student numbers from overseas and growing pressure to prepare all students for global careers. It is often assumed by pol... Read More about "It's so much easier to go with what's easy": "Mindfulness" and the discourse between home and international students in the United Kingdom.

Knowing the ‘unknowns’: Investigating the students whose social class is not known at entry to higher education (2009)
Journal Article
Harrison, N., & Hatt, S. (2009). Knowing the ‘unknowns’: Investigating the students whose social class is not known at entry to higher education. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 33(4), 347-357. https://doi.org/10.1080/03098770903266042

This paper originates from the National Audit Office's 2008 report into widening participation policy in the United Kingdom. The report found that while there appeared to be modest improvements in the proportion of students coming from lower socio-ec... Read More about Knowing the ‘unknowns’: Investigating the students whose social class is not known at entry to higher education.

"Targeting disadvantaged learners": Will we really narrow the social class gap in participation by targeting our most deprived communities first? (2009)
Journal Article
Harrison, N., & Hatt, S. (2009). "Targeting disadvantaged learners": Will we really narrow the social class gap in participation by targeting our most deprived communities first?. Journal of Access Policy and Practice, 6(2), 61-80

This paper examines the 2007 guidance for widening participation practitioners issued by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and the ramifications of its targeting strategy in Southwest England. Drawing on data on higher educati... Read More about "Targeting disadvantaged learners": Will we really narrow the social class gap in participation by targeting our most deprived communities first?.

Discussing difference, discovering similarities: A toolkit of learning activities to improve cross-cultural exchange between students of different cultural backgrounds (2009)
Report
Bloxham, J., Eade, K., Harrison, N., & Peacock, N. (2009). Discussing difference, discovering similarities: A toolkit of learning activities to improve cross-cultural exchange between students of different cultural backgrounds

This document is the output from a project commissioned under the Prime Minister's Initiative on international student mobility and undertaken by ThinkingPeople, the University of the West of England and the University of Bath and published by UKCISA... Read More about Discussing difference, discovering similarities: A toolkit of learning activities to improve cross-cultural exchange between students of different cultural backgrounds.