Full Description
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.
Contents
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
