Manuel Souto Otero,Adam Whitworth

Abstract: Making use of Grisay’s typology of educational equality, the paper analyses rhetoric and policy on equality in higher education (HE) in Spain and the UK in the period 1996–2004, using electoral manifestos, policy papers, legis-lation and academic literature. We find that in both countries, and in spite of similar pressures and levels of access to HE, the prevailing notions of educational equality vary. We also find evidence of a good match between policy rhetoric and policy practice in terms of areas of intervention, but not in the strength of these interventions.

Key words: equality; higher education; Spain; UK

总结：1、本文分析了西班牙和英国1996至2004年间高等教育在修辞和政策方面的平等问题，通过选举宣言、政策文件、法规和学术文献。

2、我们发现，在这两个国家，尽管高等教育面临着相同的阻力，他们仍然采取不同的措施保证教育公平，而且，他们之间在政治修辞和政治实践方面有很好的契合度，但干预的力度不同。

来源：Higher Education Quarterly, 0951–5224

Volume 60, No. 2, April 2006, pp 167–186.