Next week will see this year’s freshers arrive on campus at the University of Liverpool, as at most other university campuses across the UK. Among these will be a considerable number of Go Highers who completed our part-time access programme…
Category: Access to Higher Education
The close of one chapter and the start of another. By Helen Mallinson
Yesterday I handed in my last three assignments for Go Higher, sat my history exam and said farewell to the tutors, mentors and fellow students I have shared the last nine months with. Go Higher is a brilliant course run by the University…
Those Dorothy Moments! Life’s crossroads by Carol Brown
What a pleasure to meet the latest Go Higher students in the session Claire Jones asked me to deliver about my experience as a mature student. Currently on secondment in the Corporate Communications dept of the University, it was great to…
Ex-Go Highers elected to committee of new Mature Students’ Society by Nick Hobbs
I was fortunate to be part of the 2012 Go Higher cohort of students, where I met a number of mature students who, like me, took that difficult and daunting decision to take the first steps at studying at a…
Include mature students in the Access to Higher Education debate by Claire Jones
Much of the discussion about widening participation in higher education is couched in terms of school leavers. Of course, enabling disadvantaged or excluded teenagers to access University is vitally important, and something that the University of Liverpool puts at the…