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Beyond the compulsory: a critical exploration of the experiences of extracurricular activity and employability in a northern red brick university (2018)
Journal Article
Hordósy, R., & Clark, T. (2018). Beyond the compulsory: a critical exploration of the experiences of extracurricular activity and employability in a northern red brick university. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 23(3), 414-435. https://doi.org/10.1080/13596748.2018.1490094

© 2018, © 2018 Association for Research in Post‐Compulsory Education (ARPCE). There has been an increasing emphasis placed on the skills and attributes that university students develop whilst studying for their degree. These ‘narratives of employabil... Read More about Beyond the compulsory: a critical exploration of the experiences of extracurricular activity and employability in a northern red brick university.

Student budgets and widening participation: Comparative experiences of finance in low and higher income undergraduates at a northern red brick university (2018)
Journal Article
Hordósy, R., & Clark, T. (2019). Student budgets and widening participation: Comparative experiences of finance in low and higher income undergraduates at a northern red brick university. Social Policy and Administration, 53(5), 761-775. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12410

© 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Drawing on a thematic analysis of longitudinal qualitative data (ntotal=118), this article takes a “whole student lifecycle” approach to examine how lower and higher income students at an English northern red brick univ... Read More about Student budgets and widening participation: Comparative experiences of finance in low and higher income undergraduates at a northern red brick university.

Lower income students and the ‘double deficit’ of part-time work: undergraduate experiences of finance, studying and employability (2018)
Journal Article
Hordósy, R., Clark, T., & Vickers, D. (2018). Lower income students and the ‘double deficit’ of part-time work: undergraduate experiences of finance, studying and employability. Journal of Education and Work, 31(4), 353-365. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639080.2018.1498068

This paper explores how the various pressures of finance, employability and part-time work are experienced by undergraduates studying in an English Red Brick University. Drawing on the results of a 3-year qualitative study that followed 40 students t... Read More about Lower income students and the ‘double deficit’ of part-time work: undergraduate experiences of finance, studying and employability.

‘We will never escape these debts’: Undergraduate experiences of indebtedness, income-contingent loans and the tuition fee rises (2017)
Journal Article
Clark, T., Hordósy, R., & Vickers, D. (2019). ‘We will never escape these debts’: Undergraduate experiences of indebtedness, income-contingent loans and the tuition fee rises. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 43(5), 708-721. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877x.2017.1399202

This article critically examines how undergraduate students in a red brick university in the North of England have experienced the threefold rise in tuition fees since 2012, with particular attention on how they have begun to understand and negotiate... Read More about ‘We will never escape these debts’: Undergraduate experiences of indebtedness, income-contingent loans and the tuition fee rises.

‘Tracing’ Europeanisation: School leavers’ and graduates’ information systems as an example (2016)
Journal Article
Hordósy, R. (2016). ‘Tracing’ Europeanisation: School leavers’ and graduates’ information systems as an example. Research in Comparative and International Education, 11(2), 135-147. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745499916632978

This paper analyses the extent to which the process of Europeanisation can be observed within a specific policy area: that of school leaving and graduation. The paper investigates what is known about school leavers and graduates at the national and t... Read More about ‘Tracing’ Europeanisation: School leavers’ and graduates’ information systems as an example.

How do different stakeholders utilise the same data? The case of school leavers’ and graduates’ information systems in three European countries (2016)
Journal Article
Hordósy, R. (2017). How do different stakeholders utilise the same data? The case of school leavers’ and graduates’ information systems in three European countries. International Journal of Research and Method in Education, 40(4), 403-420. https://doi.org/10.1080/1743727x.2016.1144740

This paper analyses how three European countries produce and use data within a specific educational policy field, that of school leaving and graduation. It compares how stakeholders in England, Finland and the Netherlands know what happens to the lea... Read More about How do different stakeholders utilise the same data? The case of school leavers’ and graduates’ information systems in three European countries.

Who knows what school leavers and graduates are doing? Comparing information systems within Europe (2014)
Journal Article
Hordosy, R. (2014). Who knows what school leavers and graduates are doing? Comparing information systems within Europe. Comparative Education, 50(4), 448-473. https://doi.org/10.1080/03050068.2014.887370

Many current national and institutional education policies address the issue of raising participation amongst young people and enhancing employability after leaving school or university. What sort of information are these policies built on? This pape... Read More about Who knows what school leavers and graduates are doing? Comparing information systems within Europe.