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Category: Mature learners

Access to Higher Education, Mature learners, Student Stories, Uncategorized, Widening Participation

From ‘slightly terrified’ to about to be arts undergrad – by Mark Nuttall

Claire Jones / June 29, 2018

So, we have reached the end of Go Higher 2017- 2018, and quite the journey it’s been! My names Mark and I’m 30. I did well at school to be honest, coming out with decent A Level Grades at 18,…

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Access to Higher Education, Mature learners, Student Experience, Student Stories, Widening Participation

Steps, by Marie Court, Go Higher 2017-18

Claire Jones / June 22, 2018

After recently completing Go Higher at the University of Liverpool, I can honestly say it is by far one of the best decisions I have ever made and I am so pleased I decided to take up the offer of…

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Access to Higher Education, Mature learners, Student Experience, Student Stories, Widening Participation

From Small Acorns Mighty Oaks Grow! By Gary Stevens, 3rd year psychology student

Claire Jones / November 20, 2017

Before I began this journey, I was fortunate enough to get a job straight out of school. My exam grades were far from overwhelming and, at 18, I had no real work experience yet it seemed I had landed on…

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Access to Higher Education, Mature learners, Student Experience, Widening Participation

Mature students: Why there’s NO NEED TO PANIC on your way to university… By Devon Motte (class of 2017)

Claire Jones / July 17, 2017

For anyone who is toying with the idea of heading back to university, the idea of combatting a cavalcade of fresh young faces just off the ‘A level’ belt can sound daunting and ill prepared. However, lucky for mature students,…

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Access to Higher Education, Mature learners, Student Experience, Student Stories, Widening Participation

Reflections on Go Higher by Lauren (class of 2017)

Claire Jones / July 5, 2017

I was really lucky to get onto Go Higher because I only found out about its existence within a few days of the application closing date. I had applied for another Access to Higher Education course and was dreading the…

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Access to Higher Education, Mature learners, Student Experience, Student Stories, Widening Participation

A Go Higher Student’s Personal Story by Dominic Henry

Claire Jones / January 19, 2017

I’ll start with some information about me. In school I made the same cocky mistakes a lot of teens do; i.e. I decided there was no point going to school because, well, what could they possibly teach me that I…

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Access to Higher Education, Mature learners, Widening Participation

Anticipation, organisation, and lots of cups of strong coffee… By Claire Jones

Claire Jones / September 1, 2016

Go Higher students and staff work hard. Our access Diploma students begin their studies a full month before their fellow Liverpool students following undergraduate degree programmes. Next Tuesday, September 06, we will be welcoming some 92 new students on to…

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Access to Higher Education, Mature learners, Student Experience, Student Stories, Widening Participation

A personal story by Graham Moran…

Claire Jones / June 14, 2016

After leaving my degree studies at 18 years old, feeling like I never wanted to return to any form of higher education ever again, I felt wrung out, tired and wanted to explore the other side of the pavement. As…

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Access to Higher Education, Mature learners, Student Experience, Student Stories, Widening Participation

Twelve months later – by Lisa Hopkins, class of 2016

Claire Jones / June 9, 2016

Twelve months ago I was lost. Having left school at 15 I had no GCSEs, I found myself turned away from many institutions and possible career paths because of this. As taking GCSEs as an over 25 is no longer…

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Access to Higher Education, Mature learners, Student Experience, Widening Participation

The student view, half way through…. By Danial Latu

Claire Jones / January 26, 2016

For a number of years I had been wanting to return to formal learning as things did not go to plan the first time round when I was in high school. I left at the age of 13 as a…

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Access to Higher Education, Mature learners, Student Experience, Widening Participation

How to discover what you like to study – and what you don’t….

Claire Jones / November 6, 2015

Mature students returning to education after a long time out are often undecided as to what they may want to study as an undergraduate. This is true of many of our Go Higher Diploma students embarking on the part-time, one-year…

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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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