Access to higher education

Abstract

Aims to explore the various factors that influenced the outcomes of an orientation course for nurses and midwives entering higher education for the first time. Data were gathered by questionnaire and findings analysed to determine potential enabling and inhibiting factors affecting individual academic performance. Evidence suggests that there are a number of interrelating influences which affect success or failure and quality issues related to courses of this type must take a wider view than just the initial academic profile of the individual.

Citation

Hill, Y., MacGregor, J. and Dewar, K. (1997), "Access to higher education", Quality Assurance in Education, Vol. 5 No. 2, pp. 73-79. https://doi.org/10.1108/09684889710165116