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Home or away? The significance of ethnicity, class and attainment in the housing choices of female university students

Home or away? The significance of ethnicity, class and attainment in the housing choices of female university students
Home or away? The significance of ethnicity, class and attainment in the housing choices of female university students
Given the financial implications for studying at a higher education institution, students are faced with many decisions both in terms of the topics they wish to study but also the decision of whether to remain at home or move away. The aim of this paper is to compare the experiences of South Asian (Indian, Bangladeshi and Pakistani) female students to White females, to identify similarities and differences between women from the three Asian groups and also compare changes over time. This paper is focused on the term-time accommodation status of these students i.e. the decision to move away or stay residing in the parental/guardian home during their first year of university. Understanding students’ accommodation choices is important as it can limit the other choices they have to make such as which course to choose and students who are limited to their local institutions can only study what is offered by those particular institutions. We examine this issue by using binary logistic regression to analyse administrative enrolment data on HE students in England for academic years 1998/99 and 2005/06 from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).
1361-3324
Khambhaita, Priya
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Bhopal, Kalwant
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Khambhaita, Priya
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Bhopal, Kalwant
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Khambhaita, Priya and Bhopal, Kalwant (2013) Home or away? The significance of ethnicity, class and attainment in the housing choices of female university students. Race Ethnicity and Education. (doi:10.1080/13613324.2012.759927).

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Given the financial implications for studying at a higher education institution, students are faced with many decisions both in terms of the topics they wish to study but also the decision of whether to remain at home or move away. The aim of this paper is to compare the experiences of South Asian (Indian, Bangladeshi and Pakistani) female students to White females, to identify similarities and differences between women from the three Asian groups and also compare changes over time. This paper is focused on the term-time accommodation status of these students i.e. the decision to move away or stay residing in the parental/guardian home during their first year of university. Understanding students’ accommodation choices is important as it can limit the other choices they have to make such as which course to choose and students who are limited to their local institutions can only study what is offered by those particular institutions. We examine this issue by using binary logistic regression to analyse administrative enrolment data on HE students in England for academic years 1998/99 and 2005/06 from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).

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Published date: 2013

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Local EPrints ID: 341375
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/341375
ISSN: 1361-3324
PURE UUID: 82a0a58c-e5dd-450a-a1f5-533f0c793a6e

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Date deposited: 23 Jul 2012 14:15
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 11:38

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Author: Priya Khambhaita
Author: Kalwant Bhopal

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