Education, Background and Policy: The Allocation Mechanism of Minority Students' Access to Higher Education

doi:10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2018.04.006

Abstract

Abstract: Surveys on minority students' access to higher education tend to involve little pre-college ex-perience and policy data. Based on existing theory and data from the China College Student Survey (CCSS, 2011-2016), this study developed a new framework to analyze minority students' access to higher education. Related factors are grouped into three dimensions:family background, pre-college educational experience and educational policy. Using the higher education stratification mobility rate, logistic regression model and the Sheaf Coefficients, the authors found that, with equal opportunity policy in place, pre-college educational ex-periences are the main factors influencing minority students' access to higher education, especially in elite u-niversities enrollment. Moreover, the lower average level of education an ethnic group received, the less bal-anced level of their access to higher education caused by their parents' occupation differentiation. This means that the influence of family background on access to elite university opportunity is still significant. National education policy can effectively balance the access to elite universities in inhabited and non-inhabited areas of minority.

Key words: minority students, access to higher education, allocation mechanism

HUANG Yuheng, SHI Jinghuan. Education, Background and Policy: The Allocation Mechanism of Minority Students' Access to Higher Education[J]. Journal of East China Normal University(Educationa, 2018, 36(4): 62-70+163+164.

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