ABSTRACT
In the previous chapters we have focused on the perspectives of non-traditional students participating in higher education throughout Europe in their different national contexts, studying a wide variety of subjects in both elite and non-elite institutions. This chapter aims to reflect on some of the major themes in the students' accounts and to tease out what this might suggest about contemporary higher education. It will discuss what these empirical findings indicate about (in)equality and education. Furthermore, we will reflect on some of the main theoretical and methodological questions raised in the previous chapters about agency, identity and learning amongst non-traditional students and examine how institutional and non-institutional resources can be, and are being, used to support and widen access.
