This report analyses the barriers and deterrents that affect ‘widening participation’ students when considering continuation in higher education to study at postgraduate level.
This report presents the findings of research on the factors that affect students’ decisions to undertake postgraduate study. The research explored any significant differences between student groups and students’ intentions and experience of studying at postgraduate level. In particular it focused on whether there was any under-representation of particular groups in postgraduate study why students decide to continue to study at postgraduate level and what their experience is once they take on postgraduate study.
This is an EvidenceNet summary of the 2008 Higher Education Academy-funded project by Mary Stuart Catherine Lido Shell Morgan Lucy Solomon and Karen Akroyd: 'Widening participation to postgraduate study: decisions deterrents and creating success'.
