Thinking of returning to education as a mature student? Make sense of higher education and reflect on your next steps. Understand how to succeed as a mature student. What is a mature student? What life and work experience can mature learners bring to the learning environment? Answer these questions and more with this course.
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You will will consider the perceived barriers that mature learners face and potential solutions to those barriers. You will learn about the skills you need to develop as a mature student, the support systems you can gain access to, and the guidance that is available to you in making an application to a course of interest.
Syllabus
Week 1: Are you mature?
Week 2: So, education might be for me... what next?
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you'll be able to...
- Engage with other mature learners
- Develop a timeline of the history of mature learners
- Evaluate their own barriers to returning to education including, those related to a sense of belonging to an education setting
- Design an action plan to prepare for the skills and support networks learners will need in advance of, and during, their course
- Apply the skills learned to begin making a UCAS application
