University Pathway Programs: Local Responses within a Growing Global Trend

This volume is the first to compile the insights of experienced and informed education researchers and practitioners involved in the delivery of university pathway programs. These programs have emerged as effective responses to global, national and local students' needs when transitioning to Hi...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Subjects:
Higher education.
Study Skills.
Learning.
Instruction.
International education .
Comparative education.
Educational policy.
Education and state.
ISBN:9783319725055
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1 - University Pathway Programs: a response to global, national and local needs in students' transition to Higher Education
  • 1. University Pathway Programs: Types, Origins, Aims and Defining Traits
  • 2. Positioning Pathways Provision within Global and National Contexts
  • Part 2 - The Role of University Pathway Programs in Addressing Issues Related to Access, Equity, Inclusion and Participation in Higher Education
  • 3. The use of enabling programs as a pathway to higher education by disadvantaged students in Australia
  • 4. Great Expectations: African Youth from Refugee Backgrounds and the Transition to University
  • 5. Alternative access to tertiary science study in South Africa: Dealing with 'disadvantage', student diversity, and discrepancies in graduate success
  • 6. Huakina mai te tatau o tōu whare: Opening university doors to indigenous students
  • 7. Qatar University Foundation Program: A Means to Access Higher Education and a Pathway for Transformation
  • 8. Come one, come all: The question of open entry in enabling programs
  • Part 3 - Transitions from the Vocational to the Higher Education Sector
  • 9. Filling the Skills Gap in Australia - VET Pathways
  • 10. The TAFE/VET pathways student experience in Higher Education
  • 11. Seamless segues from Polytechnic to University: A New Zealand case study of a dual provider partnership
  • Part 4 - Issues of Curriculum and Pedagogy in University Preparation Programs
  • 12. Pathways and praxis: designing curriculum for aspirational programs
  • 13. Students on the threshold: Commencing student perspectives and enabling pedagogy
  • Part 5 - Internationalisation and Privatisation of University Pathway Programs
  • 14. Quality and innovation for international pathway programs: good practice and recommendations for the future in the UK context and beyond
  • 15. Canada's First International Partnership for a Pathway Program. .

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