Categories: teaching
Tags: students
Date: 22 May 2010 17:45:19
There's been a lot of guff written about the policy in higher education of widening participation. However, as an associate lecturer with a university that as a non-traditional non-campus university has particularly embraced the concept of widening participation and which attracts a large number of students who would fall into the widening participation agenda, I have to say that I continue to be amazed and humbled by the efforts that my students - many of whom are from disadvantaged backgrounds, or who have not been in education for many years for various reasons - put into their studies despite facing many barriers still. They really are quite inspirational.
I did my final tutorial for this academic year today. We had a small number of students, but they worked *so* hard, they were really brilliant. With students like this I don't mind giving up my Saturday, despite the good weather. What a bunch of stars.