Returning to Education as a Mature Student

Understand how to succeed as a mature student

What is a mature student? What life and work experience can mature learners bring to the learning environment? Answer these questions and more with this course.

You will consider the perceived barriers that mature learners face and potential solutions to those barriers. You will learn about the skills you need to develop as a mature student, the support systems you can gain access to, and the guidance that is available to you in making an application to a course of interest.

This course is for mature students who have been out of the education system for a significant period of time who are considering their future educational and career options with a view to doing a university course.

This course is for mature students who have been out of the education system for a significant period of time who are considering their future educational and career options with a view to doing a university course.

• Engage with other mature learners
• Develop a timeline of the history of mature learners
• Evaluate their own barriers to returning to education including, those related to a sense of belonging to an education setting
• Design an action plan to prepare for the skills and support networks learners will need in advance of, and during, their course
• Apply the skills learned to begin making a UCAS application