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The university on your doorstep: A misplaced utopia? The Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale case

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The European university system, in the last decades, has changed significantly. One of the most important processing lines, has seen governments committed to make universities more accessible. The main objectives were both to "democratize" the access to culture and education, and to facilitate access to higher education for young people living in small towns or in rural areas, far from the metropolitan universities. The aim of our paper is to describe, after many years, how the student population has changed, and which are the main criticalities that came into conflict with the original objectives of the university's reforms. Our paper will focus on the case of the University of the Littoral Opal Coast, established in 1991 and based in Dunkerque, Calais, Boulogne-sur-Mer and Saint-Omer (Nord-Pas de Calais, France). We referred mostly to the data collected during the-Universanté‖ research, started in 2008 and including an observatory monitoring students' health, both from a medical, socio-cultural and psychological perspective. Our analysis has been carried out on a sample of approximately 3000 students, both at regional, interregional and international level. The data collected shows clearly the sociodemographic profile of the Nord-Pas de Calais Universities' students, and allows us to focus on the main criticalities that limit the realization of the-university on your doorstep‖ utopia: public transport limits, economic insecurity and all that goes against the Social and Emotional Aspect of Learning (SEAL). This allowed us to propose some solutions to try to save some of this utopia's features.
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hal-03104876 , version 1 (04-03-2021)

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Alessandro Porrovecchio, Philippe Masson, Caby Isabelle, Kuehn Carl, Pezé Thierry, et al.. The university on your doorstep: A misplaced utopia? The Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale case. European Journal of Research on Social Studies, 2014, 1 (1), pp.1-7. ⟨hal-03104876⟩
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