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Widening Participation, Higher Education and Non-Traditional Students: Supporting Transitions through Foundation Programmes
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Description for Widening Participation, Higher Education and Non-Traditional Students: Supporting Transitions through Foundation Programmes
Hardcover. Editor(s): Marshall, Catherine; Nolan, Sam; Newton, Douglas. Num Pages: 217 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JNF; JNKS; JNM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 158 x 220 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
This book highlights the problems that have developed as students lack either the social or cultural capital to take the opportunity of Higher Education through conventional routes. This might be due to leaving school early, lacking entry qualifications or wanting to further their education and prospects after entering the workplace. Foundation courses help to widen participation and create a route towards higher education. This book offers tried and tested practical solutions, from the notion of widening participation, to recruitment of students and to ways of helping them to make the most of themselves and develop the skills they need to ... Read more
This book highlights the problems that have developed as students lack either the social or cultural capital to take the opportunity of Higher Education through conventional routes. This might be due to leaving school early, lacking entry qualifications or wanting to further their education and prospects after entering the workplace. Foundation courses help to widen participation and create a route towards higher education. This book offers tried and tested practical solutions, from the notion of widening participation, to recruitment of students and to ways of helping them to make the most of themselves and develop the skills they need to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
198
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349949687
SKU
V9781349949687
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Ref
99-15
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Catherine A. Marshall is the Director of the Foundation Centre at Durham University, UK where she promotes the development of an evidenced-based body of scholarly activity to underpin the delivery of programmes designed to provide a route into Higher Education for non-traditional students. She is the Chair of the National Foundation Year Network. Douglas P. Newton is Professor in the School ... Read more
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