Mature Female Entrants to Higher Education: Closing the Gender Gap in the UK Labour Market

Within the wider drive in higher education to promote students' use of information and communications technology (ICT) it is assumed that the Internet will be a key application. Popular conceptions of a 'wired' generation of students at ease with on-line learning persist through official literature and the media. From this basis, the present paper takes an empirical perspective in students' use of the Internet, via focus group interviews with 77 students in two UK universities, and explores the factors underlying their use (and non-use) of the Internet in university. Four crucial themes were identified, namely: (i) the ways in which students were introduced to using the Internet; (ii) operational problems encountered when using the Internet as an information resource; (iii) treatment of information retrieved from the Internet; (iv) the social element of learning in on-line environments. These factors are examined in detail and discussed in relation to the future presentation and organisation of students' Internet use in university settings.     

低年级直博生学术热情缘何消减:基于扎根理论的分析

运用扎根理论方法,探究低年级直博生学术热情消减的原因,指出学术热情消减是在个体入学前学习基础、动机与准备,教育情境中的重要他者和发展平台,以及就业前景等因素的作用下引发的行动回应,在不同个体身上体现为“主动放弃”或“被动抽离”两类维度,进而对个体后续发展趋向产生差异化的影响。据此提出了建议:贯通“后推免时期”与博士生教育阶段,提升本博衔接水平;因人施教,设定合理角色期望与支持策略;适应学生多元的发展需求,建设开放包容的博士生培养体系。