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Itua, Imose; Coffey, Margaret; Merryweather, David; Norton, Lin; Foxcroft, Angela – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2014
Staff and student perceptions of what constitutes good academic writing in both further and higher education often differ. This is reflected in written assignments which frequently fall below the expected standard. In seeking to develop the writing skills of students and propose potential solutions to writing difficulties, a study was conducted in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Discourse, Barriers, Student Attitudes
Buchanan, Denise – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2014
Despite the Mental Health Foundation (2012) stating that each year, one in four people in the United Kingdom (UK) will have some kind of mental health difficulty, students from this group are underrepresented in further education (FE) colleges. In light of this, the purpose of this exploratory research, which was rooted in the phenomenological…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mental Disorders, Phenomenology, Barriers
Maxwell, Bronwen – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2014
Learning in the teaching workplace is crucial for the development of all trainee teachers. Workplace learning is particularly important for trainee teachers in the lifelong learning sector (LLS) in the UK, the majority of whom are already working as teachers, tutors, trainers or lecturers while undertaking initial teacher education. However,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Lifelong Learning, Educational Improvement
Robotham, David – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2013
The number of full-time students engaging in part-time employment during their studies at university continues to rise, both in the UK and in other countries. The majority of previous studies in this area have adopted a quantitative research design, using a survey. Findings from such studies have tended to focus on demonstrating what students are…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Employment, Full Time Students, Part Time Employment
Richardson, Jessica J.; Kemp, Simon; Malinen, Sanna; Haultain, Steve A. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2013
There is growing concern about the detrimental effect of term-time employment on university students' academic success. We report results from an online survey of 1837 students of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, whose responses were later matched to their academic records for a semester. The majority of employed students reported…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Employment, Online Surveys, Questionnaires
McQueen, Hilary; Webber, John – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2013
Following an investigation of students' views of one further education college's teaching and learning model (McQueen and Webber 2009), a second project, reported here, sought to review students' ideas about what constitutes an effective learner. For this project a set of 36 statements was constructed based on theoretical models and research about…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Adult Education, Adult Students
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
Ali, Akhtar; Tariq, Riaz H.; Topping, Keith J. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2013
The article explores perspectives on academic activities in public sector universities in Pakistan. Seven Pakistani universities yielded 290 teachers and 568 students in the sample. Factor analysis indicated five main factors in both teacher and student data sets. Both teachers and students were dissatisfied with the performance of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes
Hardwick, Louise – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2013
This article focuses on one strand of community engagement: community-based learning for students. It considers in particular Interchange as a case study. Interchange is a registered charity based in, but independent of, a department in a Higher Education Institution. It brokers between undergraduate research/work projects and Voluntary Community…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Case Studies, School Community Programs, Community Organizations
Lahtinen, Aino-Maija; Pehkonen, Leila – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2013
The study describes the advancement of the epistemological beliefs of university students. After obtaining interesting research results on changes in students' (N = 170) conceptions of learning from Jan Meyer's Reflections on Learning Inventory, we carried out a qualitative study using a focus group interview of seven students. The purpose was to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Higher Education, Epistemology
Santoro, Ninetta; Snead, Suzanne L. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2013
Over the past thirty years universities have increasingly extended their offerings of vocationally oriented degrees and have recruited into academe, practitioners from the professions. This paper reports on a qualitative study that investigated the experiences of 20 professionals-turned-academics in Australia; their expectations of academe and how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Role, Teaching (Occupation)
Weissmann, Elke – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2013
This article examines the student experience for a particular cohort, namely the joint honours students, at a post-1992 university in the United Kingdom. These students are enrolled in degree courses that combine two subjects at one university. Little attention has so far been given to such students whose experience is decidedly different from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Interviews, Questionnaires
Humberstone, Barbara; Beard, Colin; Clayton, Ben – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2013
This paper takes critical lenses to interpret what students find enjoyable in their learning in specific "subject" environments within the prevailing socio-economic climate in higher education. It considers student dispositions that emerged from dialogues with two groups of students attending a non-traditional university and taking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Positive Attitudes, Personality
Gordon, Sue; Nicholas, Jackie – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2013
In this study we investigate the conceptions of mathematics bridging courses held by students enrolled in these courses at a major Australian university. We report on the participants' responses to email-interview questions about the mathematics bridging courses to describe a two-dimensional outcome space of variations in awareness about the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Mathematics Instruction, College Students
Hughes, Hilary – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2013
This paper reports the findings of a qualitative study that investigated 25 international students' use of online information resources for study purposes at two Australian universities. Using an expanded critical incident approach, the study viewed international students through an information literacy lens, as information-using learners. The…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Educational Resources, Foreign Students, Use Studies