آليات إعادة إنتاج عدم المساواة في نظام التعليم العالي في لبنان من خلال دراسة برنامج منح

Abstract EN

With the goal of understanding the specific realities within the Lebanese higher education system and analyzing the mechanisms of construction of inequalities in this particular context, this article presents the key features of this system through the lens of a scholarship program that gives access to a group of students from underprivileged backgrounds to a private elite university.

This paper highlights the domination of the private sector, with its pluralist largely sectarian offer, at the expense of the public sector.

This context leads to selection by money which constitutes a determinant factor in the family educational strategies, especially in the absence of a centralized and structured financial aid system.

Further, important regional and gender gaps intersect with inequalities in access to education and then in the way university is experienced.

This study thus provides the occasion to reflect on the question of inequality in Lebanon; its findings highlight the importance of taking into account the context specificity of strategies to interpret the discrepancy between the modalities of action of the scholarship program and the reality on the Lebanese ground.