Perspectives on Access to Higher Education

Practice and Research

Sam Broadhead|Rosemarie Davies|Anthony Hudson

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Access education has been through many changes since its beginnings in the late 1960s. Recent shifts in the academic landscape including standardization, grading, and new tensions in higher education raise difficult questions for educators regarding the future of access education.

This book critically examines various aspects of Access education from a historical perspective. It proposes that there are particular 'Access' values that are shared by practitioners that can be at odds with the needs of higher education. Wider questions concerning funding and accountability underpinned by neoliberalism have also had an impact on Access education. The authors, practitioners and researchers of Access education, gather their insights in this timely book, grounded in authentic experience. They explore the ways in which policies and procedures have been developed in light of these tensions. By drawing particular attention to the voices of Access practitioners and highlighting the current constraints around curriculum design this book will prove invaluable for leaders, administrators, researchers and practitioners in further and higher education.

Introduction; Samantha Broadhead Chapter 1: Access to HE, from margin to the mainstream; Samantha Broadhead Chapter 2: Access to HE, monitoring and standardisation; Samantha Broadhead and Rosemarie Davies Chapter 3: Learning on a bespoke Access programme; Anthony Hudson Chapter 4: The trust between Access to HE students and their tutors: A practitioner research project; Rosemarie Davies Chapter 5: Accessing Postgraduate Education; Samantha Broadhead Conclusions; Samantha Broadhead, Rosemarie Davies and Anthony Hudson

This book highlights the significance of Access to Higher Education courses as the non-traditional route into higher education. The authors provide us with a unique insight into the relationship between access students and their tutors, and the distinctive nature of this type of provision, whilst championing the importance of widening participation, inclusion and lifelong learning.
- Dr Iona Burnell, University of East London, UK

Broadhead, Davies, and Hudson describe courses designed for those students who do not have the typical qualifications to enter higher education. Compulsory schooling, for many social, cultural, and practical reasons, does not facilitate academic success for a number of people, they say, so another means of learning is needed to provide such people with an opportunity to achieve their personal, educational goals. They cover access to higher education: from margin to mainstream, access to higher education: monitoring and standardization, learning on a bespoke access program, the trust between access to higher education students and their tutors: a practitioner research project, and accessing postgraduate education.
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Samantha Broadhead is Head of Research at Leeds Arts University, UK. She has previously published work on widening participation in art and design education and is the co-author of Practical Wisdom and Democratic Education: Phronesis, Art and Non-traditional Students (Palgrave).

Rosemarie Davies works with university partners in the development of degree and higher apprenticeships at The Skills Company, UK. For over 30 years she has worked extensively with a variety of universities at the interface between further education and higher education.

Anthony Hudson is a Research Manager at Continuum, the Centre for Widening Participation Policy Studies at the University of East London (UEL), UK and is currently undertaking doctoral research on the identity of Access to HE tutors.