Mature Learners University of York

Overview

This Mature Learners course at the University of York explores the life and work experience mature learners bring to the learning environment.

Assessments (and subsequent certificates) are optional and carry a fee, with the exception of people with a York username for whom they are free.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to:

• 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