Perspectives on Access to Higher Education

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.

• 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.