Returning to Education as a Mature Student FutureLearn

Overview

What is a mature student? What life and work experience can mature learners bring to the learning environment? Answer these questions and more with this course. The Returning to Education as a Mature Student course is offered by the University of York by FutureLearn.

You will consider the perceived barriers that mature learners face and potential solutions to those barriers. You will learn about the skills you need to develop as a mature student, the support systems you can gain access to, and the guidance that is available to you in making an application to a course of interest.

Learning on this course

You can take this self-guided course and learn at your own pace. On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

• Engage with other mature learners

• Develop a timeline of the history of mature learners

• Evaluate their own barriers to returning to education including, those related to a sense of belonging to an education setting

• Design an action plan to prepare for the skills and support networks learners will need in advance of, and during, their course

• Apply the skills learned to begin making a UCAS application