title: Iranian nursing students' perspectives of educational equity.
abstract: Around the world there is a growing consensus that students' rights must be protected, regardless of race, creed, color, sex, religion, and socioeconomic status. One of these rights is the educational equity. However, little is known about these phenomena in nursing education. The aim of this study was to explore the educational equity from the perspective of nursing students. A qualitative study was conducted. Thus, we purposefully recruited for in-depth interviews 13 nursing students (8 female and 5 male). All interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed by thematic analysis approach to identify categories and themes. Four main themes emerged from the data: Fair Educational Opportunity, fair evaluation, attempts to combat discrimination, and employing qualified teachers.  It is argued that educational equity should be developed in higher education. Principles of equity and students' rights may form the most basic rationale for all formal and informal efforts to extend the right of equal access to education.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. javadi@ssu.ac.ir.
authors.forename: Shahrzad
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ghiyasvandian
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. javadi@ssu.ac.ir.
authors.forename: Alireza
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nikbakht-Nasrabadi
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Golestan, Iran. javadi@ssu.ac.ir.
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mohammadpour
authors.affiliation: Medical Ethics and Law Research center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. javadi@ssu.ac.ir.
authors.forename: Mahmoud
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Abbasi
authors.affiliation: Research Center for Nursing and Midwifery Care in Family Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran. AND Department of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran. javadi@ssu.ac.ir.
authors.forename: Mostafa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Javadi
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007492:Iran; D008297:Male; D036301:Qualitative Research; D063508:Social Discrimination; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*