Failing to level the playing field: student discourses on graduate employability
Despite decades of efforts to promote social mobility, studying for higher education maintains or even exacerbates social inequalities. Interventions, including employability classes and careers advice and guidance, have not succeeded in 'levelling the playing field' for students. To understand why inequalities persist despite these efforts, it is important to understand how students from different backgrounds acquire and apply various forms of capital. The graduate capital model is used in this article to explore how five dimensions of capital (human, social, cultural, identity and psychologi... Show more
Authors: Parutis, Violetta; Howson, Camille B. Kandiko
Published: Abingdon, England, Taylor and Francis, 2020
Resource type: Article
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