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Direct linkWelsh, Sally – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2020
This paper discusses a piece of qualitative research that explored the narratives of a group of mature women when they discussed influences on their post-16 educational decisions. This encompasses their initial vocational education and training (VET) and their choice to study higher education (HE) programmes in England. The research draws on Nancy…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Adult Students, Females, Reentry Students
Kabwete, Charles Mulinda; Kambanda, Safari; Kagwesage, Anne Marie; Murenzi, Janvier – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2020
This paper studies the motivations of 130 women who returned to education after the genocide against Tutsi. After 1994, Rwandan mature women embraced university education in greater numbers due to marginalisation at work, inhabiting a subaltern position as a consequence of their gender and secondary level of education. One way of overcoming work…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Womens Education, Death, Ethnic Groups
Cornish, Carlene – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2018
RPA (Raising of Participation Age) legislation re-positioned all youth in England to participate in post-16 education and training, the ultimate aim to develop 'human capital'. However, how does RPA play out in practice with previously NEET (not in education, employment or training) and so-called disengaged youth engaged on a Level 1…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Program Effectiveness, Reentry Students, Continuation Students
ahmed Shafi, Adeela; Rose, Jo – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2014
This study explores relationships between experiences in initial education, subsequent life experiences/opportunities and the decision to return to education later in life. Semi-structured interviews with seven female returners to education, focused initially upon the women's perceptions of their aspirations and motivations at various ages, how…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Females, Reentry Students, Adult Students
Smyth, John; McInerney, Peter; Fish, Tim – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2013
This paper poses a rarely asked question--Re-engagement to where? Or to what valued social purpose for the young people concerned? Drawing from a larger project funded by the Australian Research Council, the paper analyses the "portraits" of two young people whose lives were seemingly better within a re-engagement programme, but whose…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Low Income Groups, Foreign Countries, Track System (Education)
Peer reviewedBurke, Penny Jane – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2000
Interviews with 14 working-class women reentering education in Britain revealed common experiences of intimidation and inferiority. Although access programs aim to empower, their location in institutions based on racist, sexist, and classist traditions position such nontraditional students as illegitimate and inferior. (Contains 37 references.)…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Females, Foreign Countries, Nontraditional Students
