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Direct linkJohn Butcher; Renu Bhandari; Karen Foley; Mick McCormick; George Curry – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2024
This article explores the sustained impact of an Access module on mature students from disadvantaged backgrounds as they progress to undergraduate study. Framed in the context of OfS concerns about attrition and conceptualisation of dispositional, situational and institutional barriers, student survey and tutor focus group data were collected in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Learning, Disadvantaged, Student Personnel Services
Download full textNg, Sin Fai Eric; Ng, Chin Hung – Journal of Learning for Development, 2021
A small project of STEAM education called "Innovation for Love and Care" was implemented in a local secondary school in Hong Kong. Four seventh-grade students participated from November 2020 to February 2021. The project aims to integrate humanism into the traditional STEAM curriculum, to stimulate the students' innovation in a…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Humanities, Humanism, Art Education
Butcher, John; Clarke, Anactoria; Wood, Carlton; McPherson, Elaine; Fowle, Wendy – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2019
This article explores the impact of a science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) Access module on the progression of students to undergraduate Science. Drawing on the Widening Participation (WP) literature, this research investigated the experience of adult learners from disadvantaged backgrounds taking their first steps into higher…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Learning Modules, Adult Students, Access to Education
Silla, Vanessa; Hobbs, Tim – Online Submission, 2008
Children with disabilities in many countries are engaged in a historic move from exclusion to inclusion in schools and communities. In North America, Europe and other advantaged regions, this is supported by cultural consensus, legal mandate and enriched resources; and teachers routinely receive advanced training to support inclusive outcomes.…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Special Education Teachers
Bohlmann, C. A. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2006
Formative assessment in distance teaching is a complex issue, particularly when diverse students are involved. At Unisa many students from previously disadvantage backgrounds need to be accommodated in tertiary mathematics and science. However, many such students have limited entry-level mathematical knowledge and academic skills. This article…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Distance Education, Formative Evaluation, Foreign Countries
Sanguinetti, Jill, Ed.; Bradshaw, Delia, Ed. – 2000
This document contains 10 papers about and from a national forum that was conducted by the Adult Literacy and Numeracy Australian Research Consortium (ALNARC) to gather various perspectives on the inclusion of literacy and numeracy standards in Australia's national training packages and to discuss research about the implementation of training…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Administrator Attitudes, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy
