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Regional disparities in access to higher education in Greece
Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2019-05-10 , DOI: 10.1177/1745499919846186
Athanasios Verdis 1 , Kleomenis Kalogeropoulos 2 , Christos Chalkias 2
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This study examines the geographical dimension of access to higher education in Greece by mapping spatial disparities in the distribution of vathmos prosvasis, the decisive score for being accepted in one of the country’s tertiary education departments. Influenced by the ‘spatial turn’ in the humanities and the social sciences, this paper takes a geographical approach. Spatial autocorrelation indices (Moran’s I) show that examinees from mountainous settlements, insular areas, and inner city neighbourhoods are much less likely to achieve a score that would allow them to enter one of the country’s higher educational institutions. The authors use the ‘oval’ metaphor in order to describe these differences. A number of explanatory variables at school catchment area level reduce the variation in vathmos prosvasis, but no conclusions can be made with regards to casual relationships between school neighbourhood characteristics and individual scores. The alarmingly low scores in a specific geographical region, the so-called ‘Pomakohoria’, are discussed as an example of how access to higher education in Greece is being affected by location.

中文翻译:

希腊在接受高等教育方面的地区差异

这项研究通过绘制vathmos prosvasis分布中的空间差异来考察希腊接受高等教育的地理范围,该差异是该国高等教育机构之一所接受的决定性得分。受人文科学和社会科学“空间转向”的影响,本文采用了地理学方法。空间自相关指数(Moran's I)表明,来自山区居民点,岛屿地区和内城区的考生获得分数的可能性要小得多,分数可以使他们进入该国的一所高等教育机构。作者使用“椭圆形”隐喻来描述这些差异。在学校集水区范围内,有许多解释性变量可减少vathmos感染的变化,但无法就学校邻里特征与个人成绩之间的随意关系得出结论。讨论了特定地理区域所谓的“ Pomakohoria”中令人震惊的低分,以此作为示例说明希腊受地理位置如何影响获得高等教育的机会。
更新日期:2019-05-10
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