ABSTRACT
Higher education (HE) is becoming part of the adult experience of an evergreater proportion of the UK population. It serves individual aims (enhancing employability and underpinning self-actualisation) and socio-economic aims. Because of its increasing centrality to society it is important that higher education institutions (HEIs) promote equality and avoid inequality. This chapter explores this issue with reference to religion and belief. It argues that in the context of HE, the issue of religion and belief has often been ignored in research that examines equality and inequality (see Marriott, Hooley and Weller, 2011). The findings of recent research (mostly Weller, Hooley and Moore, 2011) will then be presented to help to develop the evidence base.
