The Art of Smooth Transition
Researcher: Janey Hagger.
Institution: Central St. Martins School of Art and Design, University
of the Arts, London.
Nature of Research: A qualitative study evaluating non-traditional students’ experiences
of the transition from Further Education to Higher Education Art & Design
degree courses.
Funding Awarded: £1,500.
FACE Conference Workshop
Video Clip (Video download will take several minutes - 56Mb).
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‘Spring Board: enhancing academic
study skills’
Researchers: Margaret Rawlinson and Claire Penketh.
Institution: Edge Ahead Centre,
Edge Hill University.
Nature of Research: To what extent can the application of ‘Spring
Board:enhancing academic study skills’, and online study tool
enhance the inclusion of part time students within higher education.
Funding Awarded: £1,395.
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Don’t forget us: The Lifelong Learner’s First year experience
Researchers: Hazel Knox and Julie McAdrews.
Institutions: Centre for Learning and Teaching, University of Paisley
and University of Aberdeen.
Nature of Research: This project
explores the first year experience through the eyes of staff and students
involved in
lifelong learning through part-time study at two Scottish universities.
Despite
significant differences between the two institutions, many similarities
emerge in the factors which
influence the first year student experience.
Funding Awarded: £1,460.
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Factors
that impact
on student choice, performance and retention.
Researcher: Caroline Jacobs.
Institution: Department of Curriculum and Quality Enhancement, University
of Portsmouth.
Nature of Research: This project investigates the expectations and experiences
of widening participation
students and non-widening participation students, focussing on the views
and
perceptions of two groups of students i) learners at 3 local FE colleges
and ii) HE
students in the first year of university.
Funding Awarded: £1,500.
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Not in employment or training but in community education: Young people’s
transitions in South Wales
Researcher: Heather Pudner and
Alyce Von Rothkirch.
Institution: Department of Adult and Continuing Education, University
of Swansea.
Nature of Research: This project emerges from work conducted with the
New Learning Network (NLN), a partnership supporting community education
in Neath Port Talbot in South Wales.
A sizeable number of young people aged between 16 and 24 are engaged
in various forms of community education within the project. While these
young people cannot accurately be described as NEETs, the question remains
why these young people are not in full-time education, training programmes
or in employment.
Funding Awarded: £1,500
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