Gabriella Pusztai is Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Debrecen, Hungary. She is Head of the Doctoral School of Human Sciences and Director of the Center for Higher Education Research and Development, CHERD.

• Contents: Social capital in educational research – Context effect on student achievement – Student selection and admission to bachelor and master degree programmes – Indicators of student success in higher education – Embeddedness in interpretive communities – Impact and diversity of campus environments.