Rethinking widening participation in higher education : the role of social networks / edited by Alison Fuller, Sue Heath, Brenda Johnston.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-159) and index.

Making sense of complex social network data / Brenda Johnston -- Moving on up? : Exploring narratives of educational progression / Sue Heath -- The impact of school experience on progression decisions / Felix Maringe [and others] -- The relevance of social capital to understanding decision-making in networks / Alison Fuller -- Career and education decision-making of non-participants and their networks / Ros Foskett -- The extent to which higher education is conceived as 'within the bounds of the possible' / Martin Dyke -- Policy, practice and the ' new widening participation' : perspectives and implications / Nick Foskett.

This study examines why people choose not to enter higher education. It focuses on interview data generated from across the membership of inter-generational networks rather than on individuals in isolation, in order to explore how decision-making about educational participation is a socially embedded.