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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Self-Preservation and the Individualisation of Risk in University-Based Foundation Course Students
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Chipperfield, Sarah R. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2013
Non-traditional students entering Higher Education (HE) via university-based foundation courses often encounter significant personal risk upon their return to study, and this can be exacerbated by a lack of understanding of the academic demands of HE at the point of entry. As part of a wider qualitative, grounded theory study of the effect of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Risk, College Students
The Effect of Group Diversity on Learning on a University-Based Foundation Course
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Chipperfield, Sarah R. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2012
To date, there appears to be a paucity of literature regarding the student experience on university-based foundation courses. There is some thought that such non-traditional, diverse groups of students might present problems during the learning and teaching experience and some students appear to have little insight into what foundation courses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grounded Theory, Student Attitudes, Failure