Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Access to Higher Education -- 2 A Meritocratic Marketplace? -- Historical Development of Access and Participation Inequalities -- Data Representation and Reduction -- What is Higher Education? -- Prior Qualification Data -- Is Higher Education a Public or Private Good? -- Causes of and Solutions to Inequality -- Pre-Higher Education Performance -- Conclusions -- 3 Socio-Spatial Differentiation -- The Science of Classification and Taxonomy -- Classification and Educational Concepts -- Social Measurement, Classification and Indicators -- Geodemographics, Socio-Spatial Differentiation and Change -- Measuring and Modelling Educational Choices and Decisions -- Conclusion -- 4 The Socio-Spatial Context to Higher Education Access -- How Can We Understand Access? -- Higher Education Choices and Distance -- Geodemographics and Social-Economics -- Segmentation by Prior Attainment -- Conclusion -- 5 Creating Open Source Geodemographics -- The Public Sector and Geodemographic Classifications -- Clustering Methods and Global Optimisation -- Higher Education Variable Choice and Evaluation -- Higher Education Case and Variable Preparation, Weighting and Correlations -- How Many Clusters Should an Educational Classification Have? -- Creating the Bespoke Educational Classification -- Cluster Descriptions -- Conclusion -- 6 Evaluating Geodemographic Performance for Profiling of Access -- Evaluation of Discrete Classification -- Qualitative Analysis: What Makes a "Good" Geodemographic Classification? -- Methods of Quantitative Evaluation -- Social Similarity, Clustering Scales and Indices of Dissimilarity -- Indices of Dissimilarity -- A Total Weighted Deviation Evaluation of Course and Institutional Profiles -- A Lorenz and Gini Coeffient Evaluation of Young Participation in Higher Education -- Conclusion.

7 Towards a More Meritocratic Market? -- Introducing Temporal Access Change -- Accounting for Higher Education Growth -- Widening Participation Profiles Over Time -- Access and Participation Policy Interventions -- Conclusion -- 8 A Gallery of Applications for Higher Education Stakeholders -- Higher Education Stakeholders -- A Regional Case Study - Stakeholders in Manchester -- Benchmarking and Investigating Performance for Higher Education Stakeholders -- Profiling and School Selection Policy -- Conclusion -- 9 Conclusion: The Geography of Access to Higher Education -- References -- Index.