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Category: Mature learners

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

Taking the scenic route to Higher Education by Alex Carabine

Claire Jones / May 21, 2015

I never thought I would attend university.  I had so many failed attempts at higher education behind me that I was convinced I wasn’t smart enough, brave enough or good enough to be able to get through A levels, let…

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

Versed in Go Higher by Paul Smith

Claire Jones / May 15, 2015

Wednesday was the last teaching day of Go Higher and most of our brilliant students are getting ready to begin their undergraduate degrees in September (after the small issue of getting their assessed assignments in later this month). We celebrated…

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

What do you have to do to get a place on Go Higher? By Claire Jones

Claire Jones / April 8, 2015

This time of year is always interesting for the tutors on Go Higher as it is when we get to meet the people who may become our students next year. Applications are at their busiest now, as offers of places…

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

On campus and online: life as a student on Go Higher by Claire Jones

Claire Jones / February 15, 2015

Since our students are only on campus for one day on a Wednesday, on Go Higher we use a range of strategies to support them during the rest of the week when they may be working, at home looking after…

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

Nerves, trepidation & expectation: students’ reflections on their first day on Go Higher

Claire Jones / January 23, 2015

Starting something new nearly always prompts anxious feelings; however returning to study after a long time away from education is probably more daunting than most. We asked some past Go Higher access students, now all half way through their degree…

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Access to Higher Education, Mature learners, Widening Participate, Widening Participation

What’s a typical Go Higher student?

Claire Jones / January 11, 2015

January is the time when the Go Higher application system speeds up for people wanting to commence study on our part-time access course in September, with a view to beginning their undergraduate degrees in September 2016 (applications are open now…

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

From Lightning to a Scholarship in a Flash by Bernadette McBride

Claire Jones / December 14, 2014

It only seems like yesterday that I was heading to the Go Higher department of the University of Liverpool for the first time, to be interviewed for a place on their fast-track humanities based access course. My journey and preparation…

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

What the class of 2014 did next by Claire Jones

Claire Jones / September 19, 2014

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…

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The close of one chapter and the start of another. By Helen Mallinson

Claire Jones / May 21, 2014

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…

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Mature learners, Student Experience

Does age matter? By Claire Jones

Claire Jones / May 17, 2014

Chief of UCAS (the organisation that manages applications to UK universities) has caused a bit of a stir this week by saying that university is sometimes ‘wasted’ on the young as teenagers often choose the wrong degree courses and may…

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Those Dorothy Moments! Life’s crossroads by Carol Brown

Claire Jones / May 8, 2014

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…

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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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