Perspectives on Access to Higher Education: Practice and Research

This book highlights the significance of Access to Higher Education courses as the non-traditional route into higher education. The authors provide us with a unique insight into the relationship between access students and their tutors, and the distinctive nature of this type of provision, whilst championing the importance of widening participation, inclusion and lifelong learning. Broadhead, Davies, and Hudson describe courses designed for those students who do not have the typical qualifications to enter higher education. Compulsory schooling, for many social, cultural, and practical reasons, does not facilitate academic success for a number of people, they say, so another means of learning is needed to provide such people with an opportunity to achieve their personal, educational goals. They cover access to higher education: from margin to mainstream, access to higher education: monitoring and standardization, learning on a bespoke access program, the trust between access to higher education students and their tutors: a practitioner research project, and accessing postgraduate education. This book brings together researchers and practitioners to critically reflect upon the current diversity of Access to Higher Education programmes and their different perspectives on widening participation and access education.

• | Author: Anthony Hudson, Sam Broadhead, Rosemarie Davies
• | Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• | Publication Date: May 15, 2019
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781787569942
• | ISBN-10: 1787569942