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Negotiating the risk of debt-financed higher education: the experience of lone parent students

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posted on 2023-06-08, 23:05 authored by Tamsin Hinton-SmithTamsin Hinton-Smith
Widening participation has opened higher education (HE) to diverse learners, but in doing so has created challenges negotiating situations of disadvantaged positioning compared with peers con-forming more closely to the ideal ‘bachelor boy’ student. As one of the most financially vulnerable groups of students, lone parents occupy a doubly precarious position negotiating the challenges,including financial constraints, of both university participation and raising children alone. Their experiences of HE participation are particularly important to understand as increasing financial precariousness of both studentship and lone parenthood squeezes them further through concurrent rising university fees and welfare cuts. This paper draws on insights from longitudinal qualitative research with 77 lone mothers in England to explore the negotiation of social and economic risks and rewards involved in their undertaking of a debt-financed higher education.

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British Educational Research Journal

ISSN

0141-1926

Publisher

Wiley

Issue

2

Volume

42

Page range

207-222

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  • Education Publications

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  • Yes

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2015-11-10

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2017-08-03

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2015-12-04

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