Resources: Mature students
9 resources found for "Mature students"
- Adult and Community Learning in South Wales : a policy and practice perspective
- This publication is part of the ESCalate discussions in education series by Danny Saunders, Lesley Hodgson and Cerys Furlong. It describes policy and practice around Adult and Community Learning (ACL) and the successes that can be achieved by universities when they engage fully with their communities as part of their ‘third mission’ of public service. It review the claims for educational, health and social benefits to individuals, universities...
- Developing professionally relevant research and study skills for mature students as preparation and induction for HE
- This ESCalate project aimed to compare, refine and disseminate work already being piloted in the three institutions. These pilots work with adult learners, mostly working part-time alongside their employment, for whom HE study is a daunting prospect even though they are experienced and effective professionals. The nature of these induction programmes is to dispel such fears and enthuse the adult learners towards further study and rapid progress....
- Oedolion a’r Gymuned yn Dysgu yn Ne Cymru: Persbectif Polisi ac Ar ferion
- Yn y cyhoeddiad hwn disgrifiwn bolisi ac arferion yn ymwneud ag Oedolion a’r Gymuned yn Dysgu (OGD) a’r llwyddiannau y gall prifysgolion eu cyflawni wrth ymgysylltu’n llawn â’u cymunedau fel rhan o’u ‘trydedd cenhadaeth’ o wasanaeth cyhoeddus. Dechreuwn trwy adolygu’r honiadau ynglˆyn â buddion addysgol, iechyd a chymdeithasol i unigolion, prifysgolion a chymunedau lleol a defnyddiwn rai enghreifftiau astudiaeth achos o’r prosiect GATES ym...
- Exploring the use of an on-line environment to develop the learning biographies of mature students on a foundation degree programme
- This is an ESCalate development project led by Alan Bainbridge of Canterbury Christ Church University College and completed in 2007. This project is seeking to investigate the use of a virtual learning environment (VLE) as a focus to discuss and develop the learning biographies/narratives of mature students on a foundation degree programme. Learning biographies are more usually shared and developed in an experiential group setting that...
- Starting an Adult Learning session with a Quiz
- Describes the theory behind, construction and use of a learning quiz (formative or summative) for post graduate education students
- Assessing Employability in Continuing Education
- Powerpoint presentation on the role of employability in the context of continuing education
- Access and Transition to Higher Education 1997 - 2001
- Context, methodology and findings of a research project into the experience of mature students studying on their Access course (phase one of the project), into their transition to higher education (phase two), and into their experience of higher education (phase three). The research was conducted at the University of Derby
- Interview with Alan Rogers
- Discussion of adult learning and teaching, movements and changes in the field, including a call for further work. It includes a critique of ethnocentricity of current adult education research and theory
- Embedding APEL in HE
- Report of small scale qualitative survey of attitudes toward the APEL process in departments of education in England. Concludes that the process can have positive benefits for staff and students