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

From Liverpool to Auchinleck, by Sandie Duffy

Claire Jones / August 11, 2019

Today I handed in my notice, I am leaving the job I have done for 12 years, the job that pays the mortgage, the bills and keeps the teenage son in food.  In seven weeks, I will be starting as…

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

Go Higher – or Go Home? By Amy McDaid

Claire Jones / July 5, 2018

My name is Amy, I am 27 and today is the day I got my overall grade for Go Higher and I got 70%! I could not be any more ecstatic with myself if I tried. However, I could not…

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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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Layers: Poetry and my breakfast by Barbara Milne, ex-go higher student and current tutor

Claire Jones / November 2, 2017

Go Higher literature students are sometimes asked to carry out a close reading of a text. One of the most frequently voiced questions, when this happens, is ‘How can I get xyz or even wxyz number of words out of…

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

SO? By ex-Go Higher student & current tutor, Barbara Milne

Claire Jones / September 11, 2017

So, we’re on the middle day of Go Higher induction week, here at the University of Liverpool. ‘So’ seems an apt word for today. Any initial nervousness, on all sides, I think, has abated a little and our new students have settled…

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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, 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

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 2023 are open now. Apply at https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-and-social-sciences/go-higher/.

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