@article{e10ee3754b874be78de68a1495c7d93e,
title = "Stratification and diversity in the expanded system of higher education in Israel",
abstract = "The diversification of higher education systems into 'first tier' and 'second tier' institutions raises the issue of who gets to study where. The diversity approach suggests that the institutional enrollment of students will be mainly influenced by their social origins, whereas the stratification approach underscores the role of academic ability in the process of matching students and institutions. We hypothesize that the two approaches are not mutually exclusive and that their applicability is context-bound, depending on the characteristics of the second-tier institutions. The hypothesis was tested through a survey of a sample of about 4,500 Israeli freshmen enrolled in first- and second-tier institutions in the Israeli expanded and diversified higher education system. Multinomial logistic regressions of institutional enrollment revealed the role of the hierarchy of the second-tier institutions in shaping institutional enrollment and in preserving the advantages of privileged groups.",
author = "Hanna Ayalon and Abraham Yogev",
note = "Funding Information: Publicly supported institutions aimed at residents of the geographic periphery. The regional colleges were opened during the late 1960s and early 1970s as branches of various Israeli universities in rural regions, particularly in the northern and southern districts, which were distant from the universities operating at the time. The idea was to provide academic studies in a variety of fields, mainly the liberal arts, to geographically remote students who would later complete their undergraduate studies at the sponsoring university (Gamson and Horowitz, 1983; Horowitz and Volansky, 1999). Since the early 1990s six of the 10 regional colleges have gradually become independent of their sponsoring universities and were expanded and upgraded to degree-granting colleges in their own right. The financial responsibility for their expanded operations was subsequently shifted from the Ministry of Education directly to the CHE.",
year = "2006",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1057/palgrave.hep.8300119",
language = "אנגלית",
volume = "19",
pages = "187--203",
journal = "Higher Education Policy",
issn = "0952-8733",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.",
number = "2",
}