Identifying Potential for Equitable Access to Tertiary Level Science Digging for Gold

Higher education reforms internationally have led to large increases in student numbers, and thus a consequent rise in so-called ‘non-traditional’ and underprepared students who arrive at higher education institutions with a variety of educational backgrounds. The appearance of these students provid...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rollnick, Marissa
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2010, 2010
Edition:1st ed. 2010
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Issues in Student Access
  • Issues in Access Programmes
  • A Survey of Programmes: Successes in Science Access
  • Selection and the Identification of Potential
  • Adjustment of Under-Prepared Students to Tertiary Education
  • Lessons from Africa
  • Research on Teaching and Learning in Access Courses
  • Experimental Work in Science
  • Language and Communicative Competence
  • Conclusion