Never mind the technology: feel the quality

In the following audio-recording, Maureen Stenning and Liz Thackray, members of the SLN’s Information, Advice and Guidance Team, talk about the team’s work over the past two years and evaluate its effectiveness.

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The presentation is 38MB and 18 minutes long.

Student decision-making 

This video presents a discussion of the research findings by Susan Bishop and Dan Bennett of the School of Service Management, University of Brighton. The researchers investigated student decision-making processes amongst Year 12, Year 13 and FE level students, concerning a future in HE.

The video is 39MB and 17 minutes long.

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A summary of the research is given in Chapter 4.5 of Bringing Higher Education within Reach, entitled "Pathways and progression: a study in student decision-making about their future in HE".

The full report can be found on the SLN Research Zone database.