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A better future : the role of higher education for displaced and marginalized people / edited by Jacqueline Bhabha, Harvard University, Wenona Giles, York University, Faraaz Mahomed, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights

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Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Copyright Date
©2020
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxiv, 480 pages)
Additional Creators
Bhabha, Jacqueline, Giles, Wenona Mary, 1949-, and Mahomed, Faraaz, 1985-
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Summary
"The importance of primary and secondary education as fundamental drivers of empowerment, achievement and inclusion, is widely acknowledged. So is the increasing need for higher education (HE) - education that extends beyond secondary school graduation and that delivers academic, technical or professional instruction - as an essential prerequisite for advancement in contemporary, global society. A single data point from the US provides compelling proof: the gap between the earnings of high school and college graduates doubled between 1980 and 2000 (Kazis, in this volume). Yet access to the benefits of higher education remains particularly skewed in favour of dominant majorities. Little attention has been paid to the impact of this form of educational exclusion on marginalised or otherwise disadvantaged populations, whether they are in the global North or South"--
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9781108655101 electronic book
1108655106 electronic book
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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