Mature students
A Risk Worth Taking? A Study of Mature Students’ Experiences in Two Irish Universities
... of mature students to ...younger mature students variously representing first, second, as well as third generations to progress to third-level ...these mature students are first ...
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For me or not for me? - that is the question : a study of mature students' decision making and higher education
... Apart from the top five motivations and barriers, there was a long ‘tail’ of factors (in a possible list of 25) which were ranked as 1 by much smaller proportions of students but which together constitute the ...
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Enhancing the higher education experience of mature students
... system. Mature students are a potentially large market, yet many mature students have differing priorities to the ‘traditional’ undergraduate and require flexible programmes of study that ...
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Drawing on experience: mature students and practical wisdom in art and design higher education.
... other students as skilful as she imagines? What seems to be an indicator of practical wisdom is Chad’s ability to look at the bigger picture, to be more circumspect (Aquinas, Summa Theological, part 2, question ...
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How commencement of part time study impacts on the lifeworld of mature students
... that students need to locate at least one community to gain the necessary membership and support (although not finding membership to the academic side usually results in some sort of involuntary ...full-time ...
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‘A totally worthwhile experience’: mature students, community education and ERASMUS
... University Students) Chapter of the Socrates programme, together with other schemes promoting transnational mobility, with the manifest intention of breaking down the barriers presented by national borders and ...
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An evaluation of the first year experience from the mature students’ perspective: a multiinstitutional comparison
... business students (mature students in the minority), the programme was better than expected but was generally considered to be hard work and ...the students felt there were a lot of ...
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Higher education, mature students and employment goals: policies and practices in the UK
... in mature students studying part- time, as relatively less research has focused on these, despite the emphasis on lifelong learning in the international policy ...part-time students, and believe that ...
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Using the assessment process to overcome Imposter Syndrome in mature students
... of students. Mature students (defined as over 21 at commencement of course) often suffer from Imposter Syndrome (Clance & Imes, 1978) and feel that higher education is not for them and they ...
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“Everybody gets one or two chances in life, this is my second!”: Risk and the construction of (mature) students’ biographies
... self-development. Mature students are central to this planned expansion, and Access courses at Further Education (FE) colleges are the most likely route for many of ...
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Potential mature students recruitment to HE
... people, mature potential entrants focused more on financial issues whether they planned to enter HE or not, and that they were more likely to see cost as a ...of mature potential applicants claimed that ...
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‘Out of the mouths of babes’: mature students and horizontal discourse in the art and design studio
... ‘Out of the Mouths of Babes’: Mature students and horizontal discourse in the art and design studio.. Sam Broadhead:- [email protected]..[r] ...
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How commencement of part time study impacts on the lifeworld of mature students
... of mature students are women, they tended to have greater family ...many students is still one without such ...female students. In their study, male students had greater autonomy and ...
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From disorientation to reintegration:an exploratory investigation of mature students' engagement in transformative learning
... of mature students in higher education, places very little focus how adults construct knowledge through unconscious and symbolic processes in general, including ...
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Mature students, transformation and transition
... family students at the University of Wollongong, ...these students was not very good; the attrition rates being between 18 and ...to students from certain social ...family students may not ...
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Drawing on experience: mature students and practical wisdom in art and design higher education.
... when students are studying a vocational course. Students on a vocational course are expected to possess and evidence skills for the industry in ways that students from other University courses would ...
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Exploring the learning experiences of older mature undergraduate students
... These students were recruited into a foundation year, and therefore entered without any recent educational experience, they were returners to education, rather than mature students whose path into HE ...
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Friendship, discourse and belonging in the studio: the experiences of ‘non-traditional’ students in Design Higher Education
... design students collected during three years of their degrees in textiles which they studied in the North of ...HE students in art and design higher ...gives students a broad introduction to art and ...
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A (re)negotiation of identity: from 'mature student' to 'novice academic'
... the students were able to describe themselves as ...younger students transmits from both directions, the mature students ‘other’ themselves and the younger students ‘other’ the ...
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Vol 17, No 7 (2018)
... of mature students during accelerated early childhood teacher training at a Finnish university, with a particular focus on how the students perceived PA during work ...the students‟ sense of ...
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