Resources on Mature Students
We've compiled some research and resources on the student experience of Mature Students:
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Every day this week we will upload a special edition of Toni Notes. These will cover different aspects of adult learning, in celebration of Adult Learners' Week 2013.
Following the announcement by Education Minister John O’Dowd on A-Level changes, NUS-USI student movement President Adrianne Peltz said the announcement must ensure clarity for students and must maintain the integrity and transferability of qualifications. She said however that removing the January resit option for new A-Level students, and the potential change to the AS/A2 weightings were both very retrograde steps.
President of NUS-USI student movement Adrianne Peltz has welcomed the creation of 230 new jobs for recently qualified teachers, who will now be recruited on two year fixed-term contracts to help provide tuition to children on literacy and numeracy.
We are really excited to announce that this year’s Education and Representation course will be extended to a fourth day due to a subsidy from HEFCE. This support enables us to develop the content of this course even further, framed around our mutual agenda around partnership, student engagement and quality
At NUS2013 we launched a report that details research in to the diversity of officers across the movement. Take a look at this report now.
We are calling on students’ unions to urge the government to reverse this policy and we need your help to lobby your MP’s and put pressure on Michael Gove to rethink his damaging reforms.