Mature Non-Traditional Undergraduates' Transition to University: A Complex Realist Study of the Barriers

这项博士研究是一项定量（调查）和定性（访谈）比较案例研究，研究了1992年前后英国大学的成熟非传统学生进入本科第一年学习的过渡障碍。目的是调查这些学生如何在威尔士政府高等教育（HE）政策的框架内获得学习。本研究试图通过分析成熟的非传统型学生的社会和学术经历中前因条件的概率来识别过渡性障碍。随后的目标是产生一个过渡模式，并询问扩大（RW）伙伴关系的价值，促进威尔士成熟的非传统学生扩大接受高等教育（HE）的机会。将就这些伙伴关系如何有助于学生过渡到威尔士大学本科第一年的学习提出建议。伦理问题被认为是最小的，但这项研究将受到社会科学研究所伦理委员会的批准。

This PhD research is a quantitative (survey) and qualitative (interview) comparative case study of mature non-traditional students' transitional barriers to the first year of UG study in pre-and a post-1992 UK universities. The aim is to investigate how these students access learning within the framework of the Welsh Government Higher Education (HE) policies. The study seeks to identify the transitional barriers by analysing the probabilities of the antecedent conditions in mature non-traditional students' social and academic experiences. Subsequent aims are to generate a model of transition and interrogate the value of Reaching Wider (RW) partnerships promoting Widening Access (WA) to Higher Education (HE) in Wales for mature non-traditional students. Recommendations will be offered on how these partnerships can contribute to students' transition to the first year of UG study in Wales. Ethical issues are understood to be minimal, but the research will be subject to clearance by SOCSI's ethics committee.