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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"mature students"”.
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The Employment Potential of Mature Students
… the determination of the employment potential of mature students, having regard to other factors which may influence employment potential. The mature student was defined as being aged 25 and over on entry, attending a higher education establishment in pursuit of a qualification, within the …
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Mature students in occupational therapy education and practice
… education initially provided a picture of mature student success when compared with the performance of younger students, but this finding was negated when the confounding variable of entry qualification was added to the analysis. The mature student data were strongly influenced by the …
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Mature students' perception of stress on returning to learn
In this thesis we present a theoretical model for mature students' perception of stress. The study examines the sources of institutional, dispositional and situational stress of students who are age thirty-to fifty-five. The research involved mature students in England (Yorkshire) and the United …
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Transforming habitus? : experiences of mature students in a higher education institution
This study explores the experiences of mature adults returning to study at a higher education institution. The aims of the research focus on the complicated and complex ways in which dispositions of class, embodied in the habitus, shape opportunities, choices and experiences of a group of mature …
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How commencement of part-time study impacts on the lifeworld of mature students
… part-time provision from 2012. Potentially fewer students applying for courses may mean that university income will become reliant on students completing courses and so retention will assume greater significance. At the university at the centre of this research 62% of all withdrawals on part-time …
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"Finding a Voice" The experience of mature students in a college of further education
This study explores the experience of mature students in a Further Education college in Ireland. It looks at the development of the further education sector and its current role in Irish education. Further education is a major provider of education for adults as more than half the students in …
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The challenges of female mature students studying at undergraduate level at the University of Malta
… barriers and facilitating factors which female mature students studying at undergraduate level face at the University of Malta. This research sought to study their relationship with University staff and students, as well as with their relatives. A qualitative approach was adopted for this …
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An evaluation of the English Language component of the mature students' entrance examinations into selected Ghanaian Universities
… School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) and the Mature Students’ Entrance Examinations. The latter examination is mainly conducted internally by the universities in order to select the successful applicants for enrolment. This is on condition that the test takers have prior working experience in …
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Expectations and Realisations: Experiences of mature students returning to study in an institution of public sector Higher Education
… philosophy and purpose. By allowing a group of mature students to speak for themselves it questions the assumptions of those who would advocate a separate theory of adult education. Such humanistic beliefs may be within the perception of the educators but be beyond the reality or requirements of …
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Access to higher education as a point of transition for mature students, an experience by which they are transformed
… transition and a transformative experience for mature students studying in Further Education (FE) and interrogates how widening participation policy discourse for under-represented groups, posits mature students’ identity, as one of individual and collective deficit. Employing Mezirow’s concept …
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I'm not that woman any more! or am I? Can higher education be transformative for mature students despite the challenges and barriers they face?
… for many this may not occur until later in life. Mature students represented 9 per cent of new entrants to higher education in 2016/2017 (Higher Education Authority, 2018). Of that Maynooth University has the highest percentage of mature students in all universities in Ireland. They have a policy …
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Triple disadvantage: when othered students, study an othered course at an othered university – working-class, mature students’ discursive accounts of life on (and beyond) a two-year undergraduate Law degree
… non-traditional (including working-class and/or mature) students experience three-year undergraduate degrees at public sector universities. This shows that for these students university is experienced differently to traditional students, with non-traditional students feeling relatively …
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Students speak up: career exploration and the working relationship
This study was undertaken to learn more about how mature students perceive the career exploration process when visiting a university career service. Further, research has found that client ratings of the working alliance are a positive predictor of client change; however, this relationship has not …
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Narrative means towards literacy understandings: exploring transformations within literacies and migrating identities. An analysis of narrative reflections towards the development of critical reflective thinking by mature students in a classroom of wider access
… development of critical reflective thinking by mature students in a classroom of wider access: This thesis reports on the narratives of transitions undergone by adult students, mostly speakers of English as an additional language at an English language dominated institution, in returning to …
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Mature non-specialist undergraduate students and the challenges they face in learning mathematics
… approach to examine the learning experiences of mature non-specialist first year undergraduate university students studying mathematics as an ancillary subject. The challenges faced by such students taking mathematics as a subsidiary subject within their main degree have not been adequately …
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Multi-aspectual interview technique (M.A.I.T.)
… began when the researcher saw an anomaly in mature students who studyinformation technology as they have decided to study a subject for which their timein mandatory state education has provided no foundation of knowledge. Even thoughthis is true, it should be noted that information technology …
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Integrating the experiences and identities of Irish mature student primary teachers.
… learning, studies of the experiences of female mature students in colleges of education, particularly in Ireland, are limited. This qualitative study of six female full-time mature student teachers in Ireland is rooted in a multifaceted theoretical framework, which incorporates symbolic …
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An exploration of mature undergraduate students' experiences of depression: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
… investigation of the first-hand accounts of mature undergraduate students with depression. Participants were drawn from one Institution of Higher Education in Ireland. The number of mature students entering Higher Education in Ireland is increasing annually. The number of individuals with a …
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Identity-portfolio-management: a data-led research study of organisational entrant engagement in processes of identity-creation and identity management
… from the participants, thirty-four first year mature students in two Irish Universities, was principally analysed utilising a discursive psychology analytic approach. The principle research findings were that the participants managed their identity-structures (identity-portfolios) through two …
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Returns to Education: Evidence from the UK
… recruited university graduates consist of “fresh students” who entered universities as school leavers typically with A-level and workers with several years of work experience called “mature students”. The MDID results show that the expansion of higher education mostly reduces the returns for fresh …
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