Abstract
Drawing upon a case‐study of the students and teaching staff of an Advanced Vocational Certificate of Education (AVCE) in Travel and Tourism, this paper examines the effects of the institutional habitus of a Further and Higher Education (FHE) college upon the higher education choices of a group of ethnically‐mixed, working‐class young people. The study focuses upon two of the three aspects of the institutional habitus: the expressive order (teacher–student relations) and educational status (curriculum offerings and reputation). Evidence indicated that both aspects exerted a distinct ‘college‐effect’ upon the students' decision‐making. Among staff, however, there was a strong degree of ambivalence regarding the effects of supportive teacher–student relations on the students' educational development and choice‐making. This ambivalence relates, in turn, to staff perceptions of distinct FE and H.E teaching and learning cultures within the College – or, in effect, a belief that there is not one institutional habitus but two.
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