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Month: March 2014

Student Stories, Widening Participation

Doing Go Higher ‘Educating Rita’ Style by Paula Murphy, Class of 2012

Claire Jones / March 28, 2014

There are probably a million and one different reasons why people become mature students. Many delay study because of family or work commitments, some are keen to study in retirement, and some people enrol to improve their promotion prospects at…

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Student Experience, Student Stories

A Go Higher Awakening by Andrew Corkhill, Class of 2010

Claire Jones / March 27, 2014

Go Higher for me was a re-awakening. It was my first foray back into academia after 4 years off due to illness. I began in September 2009 and took modules in English Language, Philosophy and History. I had originally –…

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Widening Participation

On choosing a degree programme by Claire Jones

Claire Jones / March 23, 2014

Spring is always an exciting time on Go Higher. Our current students, who started with us part-time last September, have mostly got their offers though for places on their chosen degree programmes. This is when things get really serious. Their…

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Student Experience

‘Cousin Phillis’ from another perspective by James Bainbridge

Claire Jones / March 23, 2014

It is always interesting how individual students see a text from a contrasting perspective, depending on their life experience.  John made some different insights prompted by the text:

Student Experience

Reflections on ‘Cousin Phillis’ by James Bainbridge

Claire Jones / March 23, 2014

Go Higher students typically bring surprising and thought-provoking reflections to class. This week’s Literature module was no exception:  our discussion of Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel Cousin Phillis prompted  personal observations and some real insight.  Written in 1864, the story describes the…

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Student Experience

Looking back at my Go Higher self by Julie McColl

Claire Jones / March 23, 2014

In October 2006 the second week of Go Higher, students were asked to write a short piece under the heading “Why I want to be a student on Go Higher”…this was my response:

Widening Participation

Introducing our new blog by Claire Jones

Claire Jones / March 4, 2014

This blog is written by the students and staff on Liverpool University’s Go Higher programme. We’ll be giving you the inside story on what it is like to study and teach on this innovative course which has been going at…

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Access to Higher Education

Go Higher is the University of Liverpool’s one-year, part-time, fast-track Foundation Diploma for mature learners progressing to degrees in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. The programme has a long history of helping hundreds of talented individuals in to higher education, many of them people who had assumed that university was beyond their reach.

No entry qualifications are needed. Applications for entry September 2022 are open now. Apply at https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-and-social-sciences/go-higher/.

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