Has Participation in Higher Education Widened after the Demise of Communism?

Matějů, Petr, Blanka Řeháková, Natalie Simonová. 2004. „Has Participation in Higher Education Widened after the Demise of Communism?“ Pp. 1-16 in Růžička, R., J. H. Ballantine, J. A. Ruiz San Román. Key Contexts for Education and Democracy in Globalising Societies. Praha: Agentura Action. ISBN 80-86742-05-9.

The primary aim of the paper is to compare the development of inequality in access to higher education during the communist and post-communist regimes by testing hypotheses about the effects of economic and cultural dimensions of socio-economic background and gender on the odds of making the transition between secondary and tertiary education.