Inequalities2 #2

Universities, elites, and inequality

Dr. Cristóbal Villalobos, Vice Director of the Research Center for the Politics and Practice of Education at Universidad Católica de Chile. Cristóbal is an education specialist and Alice talks with him about his research on the role that higher education institutions, particularly elite universities, play in the reproduction of elites, and hence inequalities. They also discuss the experience of non-elite students that manage to enter these institutions, which is often marked by social pressure, stress, and anxiety due to the cultural clash between their backgrounds and the new environments.