Ready, set, work? Career preparations of final-year non-traditional university students

IF 2.5 Q1 Social Sciences

Higher Education Pedagogies Pub Date : 2022-07-12 DOI:10.1080/23752696.2022.2100446

B. Wong, K. Hoskins

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Abstract

ABSTRACT In higher education, non-traditional students experience a range of challenges, from aspiration and access into university to academic progress and success in their degree. Most students either enter employment or further study after their degree. This paper focuses on the latter stages of the effort to widen student access and participation in higher education, with an exploratory study of the career preparation and readiness of 22 final-year undergraduates from non-traditional backgrounds in the UK. We explore how students prepare themselves and are prepared by their degree for life after university, with the focus on career preparations and employment. In particular, we discuss the challenges for these students to engage in opportunities such as work experiences and extracurricular activities, which have implications for their chances of success and social mobility. We conclude with recommendations for practice, especially for academic and professional staff.

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准备好了，准备好了吗？非传统大学生最后一年的职业准备

摘要在高等教育中，非传统学生面临着一系列挑战，从渴望进入大学到学业进步和取得学位。大多数学生在获得学位后要么就业，要么继续深造。本文通过对英国22名非传统背景的大四本科生的职业准备和准备情况的探索性研究，重点关注扩大学生接受高等教育的机会和参与度的后期阶段，重点关注职业准备和就业。特别是，我们讨论了这些学生在获得工作经验和课外活动等机会方面面临的挑战，这对他们的成功机会和社会流动性有影响。最后，我们提出了一些实践建议，特别是对学术和专业人员的建议。

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Higher Education Pedagogies EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

CiteScore

7.70

自引率

4.00%

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审稿时长

13 weeks

期刊介绍： The aim of Higher Education Pedagogies is to identify, promote and publish excellence and innovations in the practice and theory of teaching and learning in and across all disciplines in higher education. The journal will provide an international forum for the sharing, dissemination and discussion of research, experience and perspectives across a wide range of teaching and learning issues. The journal will prove a valuable resource for individuals in the development and enhancement of their own practice, and for institutions in the promotion of the scholarship of teaching and learning. Higher Education Pedagogies will focus on disciplinary pedagogies and learning experiences; the higher education curriculum, i.e. what is taught and how it is developed and enhanced including both skills and knowledge; the delivery of the higher education curriculum; how it is taught and how students learn, and academic development; the role of teaching and learning in the development of academic careers and its place within the profession. Higher Education Pedagogies welcomes papers which are accessible to both specialist and generalist readers and are theoretically and empirically rigorous. Through advancing knowledge of, and practice in, teaching and learning, Higher Education Pedagogies will prove essential reading for all those who wish to stay informed of state-of-the-art teaching and learning developments in higher education. Higher Education Pedagogies is sponsored by the Higher Education Academy.