Mature students: a silent or silenced voice?
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Mature students
  • Aug 21, 2021
Improving opportunity and choice for mature students
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Mature students
  • May 26, 2021
What mature-age students need from online higher education
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Mature students
  • May 5, 2021
Mature students blocked from PhD study by ageist admissions practices
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  • Feb 24, 2021
Glasgow Caledonian University: 85-year-old's 'triumph' as oldest Scot to achieve PhD
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  • Oct 23, 2020
Britain’s economic recovery relies on securing better support for mature learners
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Coronavirus Mature students Student support
  • Jun 30, 2020
'Lockdown has a lot to answer for': the mature students going back to university
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  • Jun 15, 2020
To help 'left behind' Britain, more adults need to feel able to go to university | Alistair Jarvis
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  • Mar 2, 2020
Golden opportunity for government to reverse decline in adult learning
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Lifelong learning Adult education Mature students
  • Feb 27, 2020
Becoming a healthcare student in my forties
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Mature students
  • Feb 4, 2020
Enrol more mature students to hit access targets, says OfS
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OfS Mature students University access Widening participation
  • Jan 29, 2020
It is never too late to return to university
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Mature students
  • Jan 14, 2020
Time to tap the potential of part-time and mature learners, says MillionPlus Chair
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Student recruitment Mature students Part-time students
  • Sep 30, 2019
Making a positive difference: Mature students and health education
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Mature students Healthcare
  • Sep 20, 2019
'Swallow your pride and ask for help', first-time students told
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  • May 29, 2019
The Open University at 50: still radical, still relevant
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Open University Mature students Part-time students
  • Mar 31, 2019
Delivering Diamond and the rise in part time students in Wales
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  • Nov 26, 2018
UCU at TUC Congress 2018
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  • Sep 14, 2018
I went to university at 61 to fulfil my dream of becoming a fashion designer
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Fashion Design Mature students
  • Aug 19, 2018
Mature students who embrace clearing: 'Getting a degree was life-changing'
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Mature students Clearing UCAS
  • Aug 12, 2018
An Oxford undergraduate again — in my late 50s
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English literature Mature students Undergraduates
  • Aug 2, 2018
New UCAS data signals further concerns for schools and hospitals
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EU students University applications Student numbers Teacher shortages Nursing Disadvantaged students Mature students
  • Jul 13, 2018
Where are the mature students in 2017?
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Mature students University applications University admissions
  • Jul 5, 2018
OfS responds to UCAS mature student analysis
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Mature students University access University admissions
  • Jul 5, 2018
Mature students – local, focused, and female
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Research Mature students University admissions University applications
  • Jul 5, 2018
Mature students: lost, forgotten, and invisible
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  • Apr 24, 2018
Helping everyone get the most out of degree apprenticeships
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  • Apr 23, 2018
The Open University is about more than who is in the top job | Letters
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  • Apr 12, 2018
Leading MPs unite and join Lord Blunkett's call to help save the Open University
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Politics Open University Part-time students Mature students Tuition fees
  • Apr 12, 2018
Save the Open University just like Margaret Thatcher did more than 40 years ago
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Justine Greening Open University Tuition fees Funding Mature students Part-time students
  • Apr 11, 2018
We need the Open University more than ever
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Open University Mature students Part-time students Retraining
  • Apr 11, 2018
PM fuels hopes of an intervention to save the Open University amid a dramatic decline in student numbers
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  • Apr 9, 2018
Rise of the grey-haired graduates
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Mature students Student numbers Graduates
  • Mar 29, 2018
Forgotten Learners: Stepping up to higher education at Staffordshire
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Widening participation Mature students Part-time students
  • Mar 21, 2018
Decline in part-time students
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Part-time students Student numbers Social mobility Tuition fees Disadvantaged students Mature students
  • Mar 15, 2018
Where are the lost part-timers?
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Part-time students Mature students Student numbers Disadvantaged students Social mobility
  • Mar 15, 2018
Shining a light on our forgotten learners
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Mature students Part-time students Widening participation University access
  • Mar 15, 2018
Part time crisis can’t afford half measures
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  • Mar 15, 2018
Forgotten learners: age should never be a barrier to higher education
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Mature students Access Widening participation Part-time students
  • Mar 14, 2018
MillionPlus report calls for a fresh approach to mature students in post-18 education review
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Mature students Part-time students Post-18 Reviews
  • Mar 14, 2018
'Wasted potential' of mature students
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Mature students Student numbers Student recruitment Part-time students Tuition fees
  • Mar 14, 2018
A tour of UCAS end-of-cycle data 2017
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  • Feb 22, 2018
Comment on the Prime Minister’s speech
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  • Feb 19, 2018
OFFA comment on launch of post-18 education and funding review
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  • Feb 19, 2018
Stop the decline in part-time undergraduate study
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Part-time students Mature students Student numbers
  • Feb 19, 2018
The Government has admitted cutting bursaries risks putting women and mature students off becoming nurses
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Nursing Bursaries Government Funding Mature students
  • Feb 12, 2018
Disappearing part-time and mature students: time for change
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Part-time students Mature students Student numbers Enrolments Diversity
  • Feb 6, 2018
Response to latest UCAS application figures for 2018 entry
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UCAS University applications Student numbers Mature students
  • Feb 5, 2018
Never too old for new tricks: the joy of being a mature student
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Mature students Qualifications University admissions
  • Jan 12, 2018
Horrocks plan is the death knell for the Open University | Letters
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Universities Open University Adult education Mature students
  • Jan 10, 2018
Second highest number of acceptances for nursing courses, despite fall in applications
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University admissions Student numbers Mature students Gender gap
  • Dec 1, 2017
Supporting part-time students in Scotland
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Universities Student support Scotland Part-time students Mature students
  • Nov 30, 2017
Comment on UCAS end of cycle report: applications by age group
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UCAS University admissions Student numbers Mature students
  • Nov 27, 2017
MillionPlus comment on the UCAS End of Cycle Report 2017
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UCAS University admissions Student numbers University places Mature students Social mobility
  • Nov 27, 2017
MillionPlus comment on the UCAS End of Cycle Report 2017
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  • Nov 27, 2017
Is there really a record number of disadvantaged students in HE?
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  • Nov 20, 2017
Meet some of the UK's oldest university students
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Mature students
  • Oct 14, 2017
The real casualty of the 2012 tuition fees shake-up? Mature and part-time learners
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Universities UK Tuition fees Mature students Part-time students Funding Politics Student debt Student loans Disadvantaged students
  • Oct 12, 2017
Pensioner starts university degree – at age of 87
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Herald Scotland Scotland Universities Mature students
  • Sep 20, 2017
Oldest Scots student, 87, enrolls at university for 8th time
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Scotsman Scotland Universities Mature students
  • Sep 20, 2017
Two-year degrees: the solution to the drop in mature student numbers?
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Guardian Universities Fast track Degrees Mature students Student numbers
  • Sep 13, 2017
There has been a massive drop in the number of mature students studying at UK universities
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The Conversation Universities Mature students Student numbers University admissions Enrolments
  • Sep 12, 2017
Les Ebdon: ‘We need a step change on widening access‘
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Guardian Widening access Universities Disadvantaged students OFFA BME Attainment gap Mature students Working class
  • Sep 6, 2017
This is what it's like to go to university as a mature student
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Guardian Universities Adult learners Mature students
  • Aug 24, 2017
Going to university at the age of 37
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THE Universities Mature students
  • Aug 9, 2017
OFFA comment on Universities UK patterns and trends report
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  • Jul 21, 2017
Eighty-nine-year-old student awarded prize after almost 50 years of German classes
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Leeds Beckett University Graduates Mature students Languages
  • Jul 19, 2017
Grandmother, 86, graduates with doctorate after leaving school in 1946 with no qualifications
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Independent Universities Mature students Graduates
  • Jul 19, 2017
Grandmother, 86, awarded doctorate from University of Bristol
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BBC Universities Mature students Graduates
  • Jul 19, 2017
University applications: what does the latest UCAS data tell us?
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  • Jul 14, 2017
‘Further evidence of the need for action’ – comment on UCAS application statistics
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  • Jul 13, 2017
MillionPlus comment on the UCAS June deadline statistical release
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  • Jul 13, 2017
University applications fall 4% in 2017
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  • Jul 13, 2017
UCAS 30 June deadline for UK higher education shows UK applicants down 4% and EU applicants down 5%
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  • Jul 12, 2017
Unions supporting high-quality apprenticeships
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  • Jul 11, 2017
Labour education chief admits Jeremy Corbyn was wrong on working class uni claim
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  • Jul 9, 2017
OFFA publishes outcomes of access agreement monitoring for 2015-16
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  • Jun 29, 2017
Response to Labour policy on tuition fees
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  • May 22, 2017
An act that Labour must repeal to save higher education | Letters
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  • May 11, 2017
Measuring gains and employability for part-time students
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  • May 4, 2017
Part-time student numbers collapse by 56% in five years
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Guardian Universities Part-time students Mature students
  • May 2, 2017
People in higher education: Mary Curnock Cook
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  • Apr 28, 2017
Does higher education have a retention problem?
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Wonkhe HE Universities Retention BAME TEF Mature students Disadvantaged students NUS
  • Mar 29, 2017
£7.5 million to tackle barriers to student success
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  • Mar 9, 2017
Johnson revs up plans for fast-track degrees
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  • Feb 27, 2017
£14,000 tuition fees plan for two-year degree courses
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BBC HE Universities Fast track Degrees Tuition fees Mature students Disadvantaged students UCU Unions Student debt
  • Feb 24, 2017
Government pushes for more over-60s apprentices
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  • Feb 2, 2017
Fall in EU, nursing and mature applicants squeeze the market
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  • Feb 2, 2017
OFFA responds to UCAS January deadline data
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  • Feb 2, 2017
MillionPlus responds to UCAS January deadline statistics report
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  • Feb 2, 2017
How returning to university as a mature student changed my career prospects
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Telegraph HE Universities Mature students
  • Jan 12, 2017