Identifying Potential for Equitable Access to Tertiary Level Science Digging for Gold /

• Main Author: Rollnick, Marissa (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Education.; Science.; International education.; Comparative education.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Mathematics > Study and teaching.; Science education.; Higher education.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Science, general.; International and Comparative Education.; Science Education.; Higher Education.; Mathematics Education.

Higher education reforms internationally have led to large increases in student numbers, and thus a consequent rise in so-called ‘non-traditional’ and underprepared students who arrive at higher education institutions with a variety of educational backgrounds. The appearance of these students provid...

Table of Contents:

• Issues in Student Access
• Issues in Access Programmes
• A Survey of Programmes: Successes in Science Access
• Selection and the Identification of Potential
• Adjustment of Under-Prepared Students to Tertiary Education
• Lessons from Africa
• Research on Teaching and Learning in Access Courses
• Experimental Work in Science
• Language and Communicative Competence
• Conclusion.