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Mature Students

Mature Students is a demographic construct in educational research denoting adult learners who enter or return to higher education beyond the traditional undergraduate age, typically characterized by life experience, delayed academic progression, or non-linear educational pathways that distinguish them from conventional student populations.

460

Publications

20K

Citations

828

Authors

314

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

77

Variants

Adult Learners

Parents

Publications

460

Individual differences in student cheating.

Stephen E. Newstead, Arlene Franklyn-Stokes, Penny Armstead · Journal of Educational Psychology · 1996 · 448 citations

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Hardiness commitment, gender, and age differentiate university academic performance

Michael Sheard · British Journal of Educational Psychology · 2008 · 308 citations

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Undergraduate Non‐Completion: Developing an Explanatory Model

Jenny Ozga, Laura Sukhnandan · Higher Education Quarterly · 1998 · 288 citations

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‘It's Taking Me a Long Time but I'll Get There in the End’: Mature students on access courses and higher education choice

Diane Reay, Stephen J. Ball, Miriam David · British Educational Research Journal · 2002 · 238 citations

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Experiencing the barriers: non-traditional students entering higher education

Marion Bowl · Research Papers in Education · 2001 · 237 citations

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Authors

828

  1. ME
    Muriel Egerton

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    6 publications · 302 citations

    6

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  2. SO
    Sarah O’Shea

    University of Wollongong, Australia

    5 publications · 276 citations

    5

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  3. NJ
    Nalita James

    University of Leicester, United Kingdom

    5 publications · 93 citations

    5

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  4. HB
    Hugh Busher

    University of Leicester, United Kingdom

    5 publications · 93 citations

    5

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  5. EK
    Ella Kahu

    Massey University, New Zealand

    4 publications · 390 citations

    4

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Institutions

314

  1. University of the West of England

    Bristol, United Kingdom

    8 h-index

    13 publications

    1.5K citations

  2. University of Southern Queensland

    Toowoomba, Australia

    7 h-index

    12 publications

    303 citations

  3. University of Sheffield

    Sheffield, United Kingdom

    7 h-index

    17 publications

    442 citations

  4. University of Nottingham

    Nottingham, United Kingdom

    7 h-index

    10 publications

    227 citations

  5. University of Warwick

    Coventry, United Kingdom

    7 h-index

    14 publications

    607 citations

  6. The Open University

    Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

    7 h-index

    10 publications

    474 citations

  7. Curtin University

    Perth, Australia

    6 h-index

    7 publications

    345 citations

  8. Monash University

    Melbourne, Australia

    6 h-index

    12 publications

    529 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Further and Higher Education

    16 publications · 741 citations

    14

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  2. Studies in Higher Education

    12 publications · 667 citations

    12

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  3. Higher Education

    9 publications · 530 citations

    10

    h-index

  4. Gender and Education

    10 publications · 515 citations

    10

    h-index

  5. International Journal of Lifelong Education

    8 publications · 370 citations

    8

    h-index

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