‘It’s just not worth a damn!’ Investigating perceptions of the value in attending university

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Cook, Steve, Watson, Duncan and Webb, Rob (2019) ‘It’s just not worth a damn!’ Investigating perceptions of the value in attending university. Studies in Higher Education, 44 (7). pp. 1256-1267. ISSN 0307-5079

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Abstract

Mass expansion of the UK Higher Education (HE) sector is eroding its well-documented benefits – leading many to question whether HE remains worthwhile. Avoiding the traditional approach of estimating the returns to HE, we investigate why many now feel that attending university will not yield any financial benefits. Using BSA data from 2010 we find that this negativity is being driven by perceived lack of graduate job prospects, the rise in tuition fees and wage underpayment. We conclude that this may well fuel uncertainty and reduce demand for HE from lower socio-economic groups while increasing intra class conflict in higher socio-economic groups.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	higher education,graduate premium,massification,attitudes,underpayment
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Economics
Related URLs:	http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?... http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1...
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	21 Feb 2018 10:30
Last Modified:	21 Oct 2022 18:31
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/66324
DOI:	10.1080/03075079.2018.1434616

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