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Direct linkNash, Paul; Stuart-Hamilton, Ian; Mayer, Peter – Educational Gerontology, 2014
Measures of attitudes to ageing typically examine only explicit attitudes, treating attitude holders as a homogeneous group with regards to education levels. Implicit attitudes (i.e., the immediate attitudinal response before conscious processes amend that attitude to an explicit attitude) have been less commonly examined. The current study…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Attitude Measures, Aging (Individuals), Patients
Hanna, Mark; Sanders, Karen – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2012
A longitudinal study of U.K. journalism undergraduates records how their attitudes on societal roles of the news media changed during university education. Students became more likely to endorse an adversarial approach toward public officials and businesses as extremely important. Yet students did not support these roles as strongly as an older…
Descriptors: Journalism Education, Public Officials, Age Differences, Journalism
Frank, Fiona – Adults Learning, 2009
Lancaster University's Department of Continuing Education has a long tradition of engagement with older learners. Its latest innovation aims to reach out to older people sometimes suspicious of the "university on the hill". This article discusses how Lancaster University develops a "Senior Learner' Programme", which is…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Access to Education, Nontraditional Students, Older Adults
Clennell, Stephanie, Ed. – 1990
A survey of older students received responses from 4,461 people aged 60 or over in four European countries: United Kingdom, West Germany, France, and Belgium. The questionnaire had three sections: students' background; information on study methods, time spent, organization of work, and use of study aids; and Approaches to Study Inventory (ASI).…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Aging (Individuals), Developed Nations, Educational Gerontology
English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting, London. – 2002
A 3 and a half year project explored the effectiveness of education in preparing nurses in the United Kingdom to meet the needs of older people and their carers within a multi-disciplinary, multi-agency context. It was comprised of comprehensive reviews of the relevant literature; an empirical study involving 781 student nurses and 855 qualified…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Career Choice, Developed Nations, Disadvantaged Environment
Download full textKirk, Jenny; Kirk, Gordon – 2002
Stage 2 of an evaluation assessed the impact of changes to the United Kingdom's national funding rules to include 3- and 6-hour information and communications technology (ICT) courses. Fieldwork consisted of a questionnaire to colleges, postal survey of learners, visits to colleges, and analysis of the national student database for 2000-2001.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Course Evaluation, Developed Nations
