Supporting University Entry in the Age of Widening Participation
Helping Talented Learners Overcome Adversity
- 140 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Supporting University Entry in the Age of Widening Participation
Helping Talented Learners Overcome Adversity
About this book
Designed for those working with widening participation students, this key guide provides all of the information needed to support learners from widening participation backgrounds and ensure fair admission to university can be effectively delivered.
Providing the reader with a theoretical and practical understanding of how to reach non-traditional students, this book addresses the realities of the challenges the modern university widening participation applicant faces. Each chapter offers a fresh and engaging insight into widening participation and explores the fascinating range of factors that determine whether students from non-traditional backgrounds successfully access university and benefit from it. This book systematically considers the barriers, approaches and solutions required to reach university and encourages a 'best evidence' approach that could enable the people of tomorrow to have more equal access to learning and through that, a positive and healthy future on a planet under severe challenge.
Ideal reading for all those working in widening participation or committed to expanding the diversity of their student populations, this book offers the insights, advice and considerations needed when deciding how best to help often highly vulnerable and unsupported students transform their lives through learning.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- About the author
- Autobiographical notes
- 1. Widening participation hits the headlines
- 2. A model of widening participation and how it leads to undergraduate entry
- 3. Visualising Access to university
- 4. What factors contribute to successful Access to university?
- 5. Who are the key players in Access?
- 6. Examining the ‘racetrack’ of competitive degree entry – opportunities and obstacles towards success
- 7. So who successfully crosses the line and enters university?
- 8. Contextual admissions
- 9. Exploring an Access course in detail
- 10. Reflections – and now for something completely different
- Appendicies
- References
- Index