What can universities do to support all their students to progress successfully throughout their time at university?

A Mountford-Zimdars, J Sanders, J Moore… - … : Policy and Practice …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
This article reviews the findings from a UK nationwide project on the causes of differences in
student outcomes in higher education. The project was commissioned by the Higher …

[PDF][PDF] Causes of differences in student outcomes, Higher Education Funding Council for England

AK Mountford-Zimdars, J Sanders, S Jones, D Sabri… - 2015 - ore.exeter.ac.uk
This report was commissioned by the Higher Education Funding Council for England
(HEFCE). It explores why different types of student achieve different outcomes in UK higher …

Care in academia: An exploration of student parents' experiences

MP Moreau, C Kerner - British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
While student parents now represent a significant proportion of the higher education
population in England, this group has been given limited consideration in policy circles …

Regulating the student body/ies: University policies and student parents

MP Moreau - British Educational Research Journal, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Despite a cultural positioning of care at the margins of academia, student parents now
represent a significant proportion of the higher education population in England and in other …

Through a glass, darkly: Gazing into the field of carers in academia

MP Moreau, L Wheeler - Review of Education, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Carers in academia is a young but growing field, which has quickly expanded since the
2000s and has gained new momentum during the Covid‐19 pandemic and the …

Neoliberalism across borders: A comparative case study of community colleges' capacity to serve student-parents

RD Cox, MW Sallee - The Journal of Higher Education, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Community colleges in the United States and Canada operate within postsecondary
environments that are being reshaped by neoliberal policymaking. As community colleges in …

Causes of differences in student outcomes (HEFCE)

A Mountford-Zimdars, D Sabri, J Moore, J Sanders… - 2015 - research.manchester.ac.uk
This report was commissioned by the Higher Education Funding Council for England
(HEFCE). It explores why different types of student achieve different outcomes in UK higher …

The experiences of motherhood among black undergraduate students at a South African University: Reconciling competing roles

T Maisela, E Ross - South African Review of Sociology, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT While South African educational policy gives all persons the right to attend
educational institutions irrespective of pregnancy or maternal status, it can be demanding to …

Let's get visible: evidence-based interventions aimed at supporting, empowering and celebrating student-parents in higher education.

A Todd - Journal of Learning Development in Higher …, 2023 - journal.aldinhe.ac.uk
This paper analyses the findings of a two-stage small-scale research project investigating
the needs of undergraduate students with dependent children ('student-parents') studying in …

'What Is? What If? What Next?'Why institutions must urgently identify, support, and celebrate their student-parents–and imagining a world in which they do so

A Todd - Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 2023 - ingentaconnect.com
Students who have dependent children are'relatively invisible in the policy and physical
spaces of universities'(Moreau and Kerner, 2015: p. 4), are'ignored or only briefly …