1st Edition

Exploring Widening Access for Mature Age Students International Data, Experiences and Practices

Edited By David Baker, Lucy Ellis, Nazim Uddin Copyright 2026
314 Pages 6 Color & 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

314 Pages 6 Color & 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Based on current data, descriptive case studies and theoretical perspectives, Exploring Widening Access for Mature Age Students considers international techniques and approaches to non-traditional and mature students in Further and Higher Education. The book provides quantitative and qualitative information regarding contemporary ways of thinking about, and institutional responses to,... Read more

Preface

Introduction to Exploring Widening Access for Mature Age Students: International Data, Experiences and Practices      

- David Baker, Lucy Ellis & Nazim Uddin

SECTION ONE: FINDINGS

1. Summary and Synthesis of Outcomes and Findings

- David Baker, Lucy Ellis & Nazim Uddin

SECTION TWO: INTERNATIONAL DATA AND BENCHMARKING

2.  International Data on Mature Age Students: Availability and Content

Kensa Broadhurst and Lucy Ellis

3. Widening Access Mature Students in Higher Education: UK and Australia Survey

- Stephen Billett & Leah Le

4. International Benchmarking Exercise on Widening Access for Mature Students: Report and     Benchmarking Statements

-  Stephen Billett, David Baker, Lucy Ellis, Leah Le, Nazim Uddin

 SECTION THREE: ENGAGEMENT AND PARTICIPATION

5. Mature Students and Coping Resources

- Mary-Jo Appaqaq

6. Mature Learners and Higher Education: A Perspective from University of Jos, Nigeria

- Naandye Dabugat

7. Life Experiences of Migrant Student Mothers as Agents of change within Higher Education in the United Kingdom

- Ron Cambridge

8. Grown up Conversations: Understanding the experience of Mature Students in Creative Arts Higher Education

- Tim Gundry

9. Life Experience & Knowledge Construction: Mature Students as Returners to Higher Education

- Nick Papé, Rahaman Hasan and Nazim Uddin

10. Widening Access: Indigenous Australian Mature-Aged Students in Higher Education

 - Thu D Pham, Angela Baeza, Peter Anderson & Levon Blue

11. Pathways that enable equity in higher education: An overview of the Open Foundation programme at the University of Newcastle, Australia and the experiences of mature-age, first-in-family, regional, and online students 

- Cathy Stone and Anna Bennett

12. Cultural Advances in the classroom: Practice, Marketing and Global Domesticity for WAMS

- Rebekah Okpoti

SECTION FOUR – CURRICULUM AND PEDAGOGIC PRACTICES

13. Social Media: The Bridge Between Education & the Workplace for Mature Students

- Bruce McLauchlan

14. The Transformational Role of Tutoring at the Autonomous University of Chihuahua

- César Eduardo Gutierrez Jurado, Ivonne Medina-Chávez & Fidel González-Quiñones

15. A Community of Inquiry Study - Mature Students’ Experience

- Damien Homer

16. Supporting Mature Students Longitudinally across the academic lifecycle

- Gemma Standen

17. Representational Realities: Understanding the 21+ Performing Arts Student Journey in the UK

- Mark Hunter and Javeria K. Shah

18. Theoretical Perspectives on Work Experience and Life Experience in the Context of Mature Students in Higher Education

- Nazim Uddin and Lucy Ellis

Biography

David Baker is Director of David Baker Consulting, UK, and Professor of Strategic Information Management, Plymouth Marjon University, UK.

Lucy Ellis is Senior Associate of David Baker Consulting and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK.

Nazim Uddin is the Director of Nelson College London, UK. He is a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and Higher Education Academy.