Exploring Widening Access for Mature Age Students

Preface

Introduction to Exploring Widening Access for Mature Age Students: International Data, Experiences and Practices

- David Baker, Lucy Ellis & Nazim Uddin

SECTION ONE: FINDINGS

1. Summary and Synthesis of Outcomes and Findings

- David Baker, Lucy Ellis & Nazim Uddin

SECTION TWO: INTERNATIONAL DATA AND BENCHMARKING

2. International Data on Mature Age Students: Availability and Content

- Kensa Broadhurst and Lucy Ellis

3. Widening Access Mature Students in Higher Education: UK and Australia Survey

- Stephen Billett & Leah Le

4. International Benchmarking Exercise on Widening Access for Mature Students: Report and Benchmarking Statements

- Stephen Billett, David Baker, Lucy Ellis, Leah Le, Nazim Uddin

SECTION THREE: ENGAGEMENT AND PARTICIPATION

5. Mature Students and Coping Resources

- Mary-Jo Appaqaq

6. Mature Learners and Higher Education: A Perspective from University of Jos, Nigeria

- Naandye Dabugat

7. Life Experiences of Migrant Student Mothers as Agents of change within Higher Education in the United Kingdom

- Ron Cambridge

8. Grown up Conversations: Understanding the experience of Mature Students in Creative Arts Higher Education

- Tim Gundry

9. Life Experience & Knowledge Construction: Mature Students as Returners to Higher Education

- Nick Pape, Rahaman Hasan and Nazim Uddin

10. Widening Access: Indigenous Australian Mature-Aged Students in Higher Education

- Thu D Pham, Angela Baeza, Peter Anderson & Levon Blue

11. Pathways that enable equity in higher education: An overview of the Open Foundation programme at the University of Newcastle, Australia and the experiences of mature-age, first-in-family, regional, and online students

- Cathy Stone and Anna Bennett

12. Cultural Advances in the classroom: Practice, Marketing and Global Domesticity for WAMS

- Rebekah Okpoti

SECTION FOUR - CURRICULUM AND PEDAGOGIC PRACTICES

13. Social Media: The Bridge Between Education & the Workplace for Mature Students

- Bruce McLauchlan

14. The Transformational Role of Tutoring at the Autonomous University of Chihuahua

- Cesar Eduardo Gutierrez Jurado, Ivonne Medina-Chavez & Fidel Gonzalez-Quinones

15. A Community of Inquiry Study - Mature Students' Experience

- Damien Homer

16. Supporting Mature Students Longitudinally across the academic lifecycle

- Gemma Standen

17. Representational Realities: Understanding the 21+ Performing Arts Student Journey in the UK

- Mark Hunter and Javeria K. Shah

18. Theoretical Perspectives on Work Experience and Life Experience in the Context of Mature Students in Higher Education

- Nazim Uddin and Lucy Ellis