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La comparaison internationale sur laquelle repose la thèse vise à analyser la signification sociale que peut prendre la justice dans le cadre des études supérieures. Ce travail identifie les conceptions de justice, qui fondent la légitimité des inégalités dans l’enseignement supérieur, ainsi que les mécanismes sociaux qui mettent en acte cette recherche de justice en matière de formation, de financement des études, de sélection, et d’accès à l’emploi. Afin de souligner l’impact du contexte national sur la définition de la justice dans l’enseignement supérieur, cette thèse compare trois pays aux systèmes universitaires massifiés mais présentant des histoires et des structures variables : l’Angleterre, la Suède et la France. Fondée sur l’analyse d’enquêtes quantitatives (Eurostudent III et Reflex) et d’une soixantaine d’entretiens conduits auprès d’étudiants, ce travail témoigne de la cohérence des systèmes nationaux d’enseignement supérieur. Cette thèse explore ainsi, dans l’enseignement supérieur, les modèles d’action publique, traditionnellement analysés comme marchand en Angleterre, universaliste en Suède et académique en France. Elle met en lumière la façon dont les principes de justice (égalité, mérite, autonomie) sont articulés et interprétés, pour finalement consacrer un principe idéalisé dans chaque pays : l’autonomie individuelle en Angleterre, l’égalité sociale en Suède, la méritocratie scolaire en France. Ce travail permet ainsi de remettre en perspective la principale fonction sociale des études en France, à savoir faciliter l’insertion professionnelle, et de souligner la nature éminemment sociale de la caractérisation, comme justes ou injustes, des inégalités. / This thesis dissertation uses international comparison as an analytical tool for studying the very social meanings of justice in the context of higher studies. In doing so, it identifies the conceptions of justice that justify inequalities in higher education. It also explores the social mechanisms that implement the aim of greater justice on four issues of crucial importance to students: selection and admittance processes, transition to work, the pathways of studies and, finally, their financing. In an effort to underline the influence of national context on the definition of justice in higher education, the cases of three countries are considered: England, France and Sweden. All three have long-established mass-education systems; yet they present significant variance in terms of history and institutional structure. Combining quantitative analyses (Eurostudent III and Reflex) and the results of sixty or more interviews with students, this work confirms the consistency of national higher education systems. It explores, as for higher education, public action models traditionally described as marketised in England, universalistic in Sweden and academic in France. It shows how principles of justice (equality, merit, autonomy) are articulated and interpreted in a way that leads to the enshrinement of a particular idealised principle in each country: individual autonomy in England, social equality in Sweden, educational meritocracy in France. It also puts into perspective the main social function of higher studies in France, i.e. facilitating the transition to work, and highlights the eminently social nature of the characterisation, as just or unjust, of inequalities.

University branch campuses play a vital role in today’s higher education field. Branch campuses help facilitate the delivery of knowledge, development, and learning opportunities to populations that may not have any other prospect in regard to pursuing their educational goals. Branch campuses have also become a new way for institutions of higher education to collaborate and work together to serve students’ interests. Yet, despite enrollment growth across thousands of higher education branch campuses that exist in the United States, the literature on branch campuses is scant. Furthermore, branch campuses, like their main campus counterparts, have a responsibility to ensure that their students are successful and reach their learning objectives. One of the ways in which branch campuses are promoting student persistence is through the use of High Impact Practices (HIPs). HIPs have helped shape education policy at colleges and universities since they were first introduced a decade ago. While there is still active debate on their effectiveness, they have become an established part of the curriculum as colleges and universities invest in resources to implement and institutionalize these practices. Given the lack of literature examining HIPs at university branch campuses, this phenomenological study sought to examine what branch campus students experience in relation to HIPs, and how these experiences influence student persistence. Additionally, this study uncovered other experiences that influence the persistence of branch campus students and assists in providing a fuller understanding of the branch campus student experience.

This study explores the interconnectedness of social class, education, and cultural capital. Considered academically elite, the independent school is be an ideal environment to find increased instances and opportunities for the acquisition and reproduction of elite, or "dominant" cultural capital. By implementing an ethnographic approach within an independent school setting, this study attempts to illuminate the student experience through adolescents' eyes. Past cultural capital studies focus on the relationship between cultural capital and academic achievement and/or social reproduction; instead, this study focuses on the everyday student experiences as they point to potential indicators of cultural capital. Results suggest that students' perception of 'place' is primarily defined by the presence or absence of money. Overall, the students interviewed expressed contradictory feelings towards having money, rejecting and distancing themselves from some of the advantages associated with wealth while accepting and welcoming other aspects.

Since the mid-1990s, New Zealand has become a popular study destination for international students. In its neo-liberal knowledge economy policies including an export education policy, international education agenda, and skilled immigration policy, international students are conceptualised as ideal policy subjects: free, rational and self-interested knowledge consumers and globally available human resources. International postgraduates are expected to contribute to New Zealand’s knowledge economy with their knowledge and skills. However, both the statistics and empirical research suggest that these students’ experiences do not always coincide with the policy expectations owing to the involvement of multiple political and non-political factors and actors including international students themselves. Cultural differences in particular, generate extra challenges for these policies to recruit and serve international students and retain international graduates from non-Western cultural backgrounds including those from Mainland China. The gap between the policy intentions and these students’ experiences draws our attention to the roles of multiple regimes of government and individual students as active agencies in overseas study and raises the question of how the two aspects can converge to achieve a ‘good’ overseas study in a complicated culture-crossing policy environment. This thesis takes a post-structuralist approach and uses an adapted Foucauldian conceptual framework that develops the concept of governmentality to explore the experiences of a group of postgraduate Chinese international students studying at two New Zealand universities. It combines documentary research, an online survey and 56 in-depth interviews for data collection with culturally informed discursive, Foucauldian descriptive statistical and Foucauldian narrative analyses of data. The findings show that the convergence between New Zealand’s knowledge economy policies and Chinese students’ experiences of ‘good’ overseas study is not straightforward. This thesis argues that Chinese international students are not made and governed by a singular political power like the New Zealand Government but by multiple regimes of practices through which these students are assembled. Chinese cultural mechanisms such as filial piety, reciprocity and loyalty, play a crucial role in constituting the field of international education and assembling regimes of subjectification. Moreover, these cultural mechanisms are not only embodied in governmental technologies themselves as technical means, but also activated through the coexistence of multiple rationalities, the hybridisation of regimes of subjectification and cross-cultural applications of these technologies. This thesis helps explain both ways in which Chinese students get ‘made into’ subjects who are willing to constitute themselves as international students obliged to come to New Zealand and contribute to the knowledge economy and also the constellations of factors motivating them to move away from on-going, constant and regular engagement with New Zealand as a knowledge economy. With its findings, the thesis attempts not only to provide valuable policy recommendations but also to contribute to sociological understandings of the global governance of border-crossing population movements and comparative studies in the sociology of education.

Cette thèse porte sur l'insertion professionnelle des étudiants. Ellesoulève en particulier deux questions : la question des possibilités objectivesd'insertion professionnelle pour les diplômés de l'enseignement supérieur, et apporteainsi une contribution au débat sur la dévalorisation des diplômes ; la question del'expérience de l'insertion professionnelle des jeunes dans le contexte institutionnelet social français marqué par la nécessité de s'établir professionnellement.Les figures de « l'intello précaire » ou de « l'ouvrier bachelier » incarnent lesdifficultés d'emploi d'une jeunesse qualifiée. Ce phénomène doit être relativisé : lesjeunes diplômés du supérieur ont des niveaux de chômage beaucoup plus faiblesque les non-diplômés. Les mesures habituelles de la rentabilité des diplômes sontrassurantes : une année d'études supérieures supplémentaire continue d'apporter unsurcroit de revenu de 8%. La dévalorisation des diplômes ne serait alors qu'un« mythe ». Ces constats optimistes reposent cependant sur des indicateurs trèsagrégés : les performances en termes d'insertion professionnelle sont appréciées enfonction du nombre d'années d'études ou du niveau de diplôme. On mesure parexemple les chances d'insertion professionnelle des bacheliers et des titulaires demaster et l'on compare les rentabilités relatives des diplômes. Les études sont donccomprises comme un ensemble homogène de savoirs : les parcours, les contextesd'enseignement, l'intensité du travail de chaque étudiant, et, surtout, la spécialité dediplôme poursuivie sont gommées dans la mesure traditionnelle de la rentabilité desdiplômes. Cette thèse, à partir d'une analyse secondaire de données quantitatives,cherche à préciser cette mesure en réintroduisant la spécialité de diplôme. Onobserve alors qu'à niveau de diplôme équivalent, il existe de fortes disparités entreles spécialités de formation dans la probabilité de s'insérer et dans la qualité desemplois occupés. La spécialité détermine autant que le niveau de formation l'accès àun emploi qualifié. Ainsi, ce travail conclut à l'existence d'effets d'inflation scolairelocaux, situés sur des spécialités de formation précises. / This thesis focuses on the transition to work of students. It raises especially twoquestions: the question of objective employability opportunities for graduates of higher education,and makes in this way a contribution to the debate on the devaluation of diplomas ; the questionof the experience of the professional integration of young people in the French institutional andsocial context marked by the need to establish professionally.Figures of "intello précaire" or "ouvrier bachelier" embody the employment difficulties ofskilled youth. This phenomenon must be relativized: young university graduates have much lowerlevels of unemployment than non-graduates. Standard measures of profitability diplomas shouldlead to optimism : an additional year of higher education continues to provide 8% additionalincome. The devaluation of diplomas seems to be a "myth." However, these optimisticconclusions are based on highly aggregated indicators : the performance in terms of professionalintegration are assessed according to the number of years of schooling or the level of education.One measures for example the chances of employability of baccalauréat graduates and of masterholders and compares the relative profitability of these diplomas. In this way, the studies areunderstood as a continuum of knowledge : educational contexts, work intensity of each student,and especially the field of education pursued are not considered in the traditional measure ofprofitability diplomas. This thesis, based on a secondary analysis of quantitative data, precisesthis traditional measure by reintroducing the field of education. One can notice that at the samelevel of degree, there are wide disparities between training specialties in the probability of findingskilled jobs. The field of education determines as much as the level of training access to a skilledjob. Thus, this work concludes at the existence of local overeducation effects, located on specifictraining specialties.

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The rights of all persons to be granted equal access to higher education are espoused in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. More recently, attention has focused on the provision of inclusive education specifically for students with disabilities. In, amongst others, the United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), inclusive education has been promoted as an appropriate vehicle to realise equal participation of students with disabilities in all levels of education. Following a history of exclusivity of educational opportunities in South Africa, higher education practitioners and policymakers should critically engage in strategic efforts that address barriers against students with disabilities to promote diversity and inclusion consistent with international human rights instruments. Furthermore, an in-depth intersectional analysis of the myriad of factors that hinder the full inclusion of students with disabilities is required. Utilising critical disability theory as a theoretical approach, this study's main aim was to analyse how students with disabilities are included in the disability policy and in praxis of South African research-intensive universities in accordance with the 4-A Framework. This Framework's markers, namely availability, accessibility, acceptability, and adaptability, were operationalized for the higher education context and expanded to include a fifth marker, affordability. A deductive qualitative thematic analysis, using a protocol based on these markers was used to analyse disability policies of South African Tier 1 universities and the perceptions of students with disabilities registered at these institutions. Results suggest that the disability policies made mention of provisions related to availability, accessibility, and acceptability. Policy provisions related to adaptability were not uniformly mentioned. Affordability was neglected and not given due regard. Overall, participants perceived their universities as being available. Many of the indicators relating to accessibility, acceptability were not mentioned in the participants’ responses. Adaptability was generally perceived to be met, and participants were ambivalent in their responses relating to affordability. Students with disabilities appear to have limited expectations regarding their rights to be realised (internalised ableism). The thesis ends by discussing the implications of the findings and recommendations for future research. / Thesis (PhD (Augmentative and Alternative Communication))--University of Pretoria, 2021. / Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (CAAC) / PhD (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) / Unrestricted

Denna studie behandlar problemet med ojämn struktur och design hos lärplattformar, brist på struktur kan innebära svårigheter med att hitta information vilket kan ha negativ påverkan på studenters upplevelser. Därför blev forskningsfrågan: hur kan strukturen och designen på lärplattformar förbättras för att öka studenternas studieupplevelse? Syftet med studien är att belysa de problem och frustrationer som kan uppstå när universiteten använder sig av allt fler digitala verktyg samt sammanställa förbättringsförslag för framtida kurshemsidor. Studien är kvalitativ och använder sig av en design-baserad forsknings metodik där två tester utfördes. Det första testet utfördes på en befintlig kurshemsida och det andra testet utfördes på en prototyp. Den nya prototypen skapades för studien med en ökad grad av standardiserad struktur som sedan kom att testas av universitetsstudenter. Prototyputvecklingen var iterativ och för att utvärdera sidan användes användbarhetstester med CTA (Concurrent think aloud) och en uppföljande semistrukturerad intervju. Data samlades in och analyserades med hjälp av en tematisk analys. Urvalet bestod av 9 st IT-studenter från Stockholms Universitet med erfarenhet av iLearn och valdes ut med hjälp av ett strategiskt urval. Resultatet visade att studenter upplever att en ökad grad av standardiserad struktur och stilsättning leder till att kurshemsidorna blir enklare att navigera och att det är därför viktigt att ta hänsyn till dessa faktorer vid utvecklingen av nya kurshemsidor. På det första testet uppfattade studenter det som att kurshemsidan har en låg grad av standardisering och att det kan leda till bland annat att man missar viktig information vilket kan vara frustrerande och stressande. Det kom vidare fram att det finns problem när stilsättningen är inkonsekvent eftersom det skadar läsbarheten på sidan. Under det andra testet upplevdes de största problemen såsom ordningsföljden och stilen som lösta. Som resultat av studien upptäcktes ett flertal viktiga faktorer som kan innebära mindre stress och oro för studenter kopplat till kurshemsidans utformning. Av dessa faktorer upplever studenter att ordningsföljden av innehållet var mycket viktig. Innehållet bör ordnas efter 1) grad av generalitet 2) Hur viktig informationen är 3) I kronologisk ordning. Vidare upplever studenterna att stilsättningen även den är viktig. Fokus är där på att stilsättningen är konsekvent, att viktig information sticker ut och att innehållet av en rubrik eller länk har en tydlig beskrivning. En viktig slutsats som kan dras är att hur svårt det är att hitta information har en negativ påverkan på studenters studieupplevelse. Det visades vara viktigt att informationen kategoriseras på ett bra sätt där relaterat innehåll bör vara placerat på samma plats eftersom det annars finns en ökad risk att studenterna missar informationen. I övrigt upplevde studenter att en ny funktion med en samlad inlämningslåda är mycket positiv eftersom det skulle minska risken med att missa inlämningar när de är utspridda på flera sidor. Om utvecklare tar större hänsyn till dessa faktorer kan det leda till en förbättrad studieupplvelse för framtida studenter. / This study deals with the problem of the lack of structure and design of learning platforms. Lack of structure can mean difficulties in finding information which can have a negative impact on students' experiences. Therefore, the research question became: how can the structure and design of learning platforms be improved to increase the students' study experience? The purpose of the study is to shed light on the problems and frustrations that can arise when universities use more and more digital tools and to compile proposals for future course websites. The study is qualitative and uses a design-based research methodology where two tests were performed. The first test was performed on an existing course homepage and the second test was performed on a prototype. The new prototype was created with an increased degree of standardized structure which was then tested by university students. The prototype development was iterative, the prototype was evaluated with usability tests, CTA (Concurrent think aloud) and a follow-up semi-structured interview. Data were collected and analyzed using a thematic analysis. The sample consisted of 9 IT students from Stockholm University with experience of iLearn and were selected using a strategic selection. The results showed that students feel that an increased degree of standardized structure and style leads to course homepages becoming easier to navigate and that it is therefore important to take these factors into account when developing new course homepages. On the first test, students perceived that the course website has a low degree of standardization and that it can lead to, among other things, missing important information, which can be frustrating and stressful. It was further revealed that there are problems when the style setting is inconsistent because it damages the readability of the page. During the second test, the biggest problems such as order and style were perceived as solved. As a result of the study, a number of important factors were discovered that can lead to less stress and anxiety for students linked to the design of the course website. Of these factors, students felt that the order of the content was very important. The content should be arranged by 1) degree of generality 2) How important the information is 3) In chronological order. Furthermore, the students feel that style is also important. The focus is there on the style being consistent, that important information stands out and that the content of a heading or link has a clear description. An important conclusion that can be drawn is that how difficult it is to find information has a negative impact on students' study experience. It was therefore shown to be important that the information is categorized in a good way where related content should be placed in the same place because otherwise there is an increased risk of the students missing the information. Otherwise, students felt that a new feature with a consolidated submission box is very positive as it would reduce the risk of missing submissions when they are spread over several pages. If developers pay more attention to these factors, it can lead to an improved study experience for future students.

Durante la COVID-19 las clases fueron virtuales para evitar los contagios, ahora han retornado a la presencialidad, pero este cambio ha generado en los estudiantes diversas experiencias tanto positivas como negativas que deben ser investigadas. Objetivo: describir, analizar y comprender las experiencias ante el retorno a la presencialidad en estudiantes de enfermería del II ciclo de una universidad en Chiclayo, 2022. Método: Investigación cualitativa, con una metodología descriptiva exploratoria, en una muestra de 12 estudiantes del II ciclo de la Escuela de Enfermería de la USAT, determinada por saturación y redundancia, el muestreo fue no probabilístico por conveniencia. Para la recolección de datos se utilizó una guía de entrevista semiestructurada, validada por juicios de expertos y ejecutada después de la aprobación por e Comité de Ética en Investigación de la Facultad de Medicina, y se utilizó los criterios éticos de Sgreccia. Para el procesamiento de datos se utilizó la técnica de análisis de contenido. Los resultados fueron representados por tres categorías: a) Experiencias en el desarrollo de las clases teóricas-prácticas y la relación con el docente y compañeros en el retorno a la presencialidad, b) Cambios experimentados en las evaluaciones ante el retorno a la presencialidad. c) Adaptación y reorganización del tiempo para cumplimiento de horarios, actividades académicas, cuidado personal y disminución el estrés. Conclusión: Las experiencias vividas por los estudiantes del II ciclo presentaron grandes retos en cada proceso que vivieron, existiendo diferentes ventajas y desventajas experimentadas ante el retorno a la presencialidad. / During COVID-19, classes were virtual to avoid contagion, now they have returned to face-toface, But this change has generated various positive and negative experiences in students that must Be investigated. Objective: to describe, analyze and understand the experiences before the return to face-to-face Nursing students of the second cycle of a university in Chiclayo, 2022. Method: Qualitative research, with a descriptive exploratory methodology, in a sample of 12 students of the second cycle from the USAT School of Nursing, determined by saturation and redundancy, the sampling was non-probabilistic for convenience. For data collection, a semistructured interview guide was used, validated by expert judgments and executed after approval by the Research Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Medicine, and the ethical criteria of Sgreccia were used. For data processing, the content analysis technique was used. The results were represented by three categories: a) Experiences in the development of theoretical-practical classes and the relationship with the teacher and classmates in the return to face-to-face, b) Changes experienced in the evaluations before the return to face-to-face. c) Adaptation and reorganization of time to comply with schedules, academic activities, personal care and stress reduction. Conclusion: The experiences lived by the students of the II cycle presented great challenges in each process they experienced, with different advantages and disadvantages experienced when returning to face-to-face.