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University Pathway Programs: Local Responses Within a Growing Global Trend

University Pathway Programs: Local Responses Within a Growing Global Trend

Hardcover

General EducationTest Prep

ISBN10: 3319725041
ISBN13: 9783319725048
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jun 25 2018
Pages: 285
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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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