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Direct linkHallam, Isabel – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2023
When attending predominately residential universities, commuter students are the minority and typically have poorer outcomes than residential peers. Research demonstrates commuter students identify factors impacting on their persistence and success, include time taken to commute, lack of social integration and a poor sense of belonging. In…
Descriptors: College Students, Commuting Students, Student Experience, Sense of Community
Xu, Cora Lingling – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2020
This article reviews three books: (1) "Student Mobilities and International Education in Asia: Emotional Geographies of Knowledge Spaces" (R. Sidhu et al., 2019); (2) "Everyday Mobile Belonging: Theorizing Higher Education Student Mobilities" (K. Finn and M. Holton, 2019); and (3) "Refugees in Higher Education: Debate,…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Higher Education, Refugees, Foreign Countries
Bryant, Ashleigh; Cook, Amy; Egan, Helen; Wood, Jeffrey; Mantzios, Michail – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2022
Researchers have studied help-seeking behaviours regarding students' mental health, highlighting their reluctance when in higher education. This study aimed to identify the facilitators and barriers to formal and informal sources of help-seeking for mental health difficulties in students based in the UK. Data from 304 participants (82% females)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mental Health, Help Seeking, Commuting Students
Maguire, David; Morris, David – Higher Education Policy Institute, 2018
The vast majority of students in the UK experience higher education on a residential basis: they move away from home to study. But, for a significant minority of students, higher education is experienced differently. Around one-quarter of students live at home and commute to study, and in some parts of the country and at some institutions the…
Descriptors: Commuting Students, Student Experience, Foreign Countries, College Students
Donnelly, Michael; Gamsu, Sol – Sutton Trust, 2018
The research reported here is part of a larger programme of work addressing the spatial and social mobilities of higher education students in the UK, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (award no. ES/N002121/1). In this report, the authors present new findings on the extent and nature of student mobility in the UK, examining who…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Mobility, College Students, Student Mobility
Braxton, John M. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2013
This article focuses on the cross-national relevance of theories of college student departure formulated by U.S. scholars. Some aspects of U.S. developed theories of college student departure hold some semblance of cross-national relevance. Economic and sociological perspectives provide such aspects. The weighing of costs and benefits inherent in…
Descriptors: College Students, Graduation Rate, Foreign Countries, Academic Persistence
Neves, Jonathan; Hillman, Nick – Higher Education Academy, 2017
Since 2006 (with the exception of 2013), the "Student Academic Experience Survey" has been designed and developed in partnership between the Higher Education Policy Institute and the Higher Education Academy (HEPI-HEA). The Survey has become one of the major surveys within the UK higher education landscape, providing insight into how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Surveys, National Surveys, Higher Education
Adams, Caralee – CURRENTS, 2010
Everyone in the business of raising funds for graduate and professional schools knows that the effort has certain challenges. Deborah McCreery, of Widener University School of Law, identifies two main hurdles to alumni fundraising at Widener Law: (1) student loan debt; and (2) a perception problem. At Widener Law and other professional and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Alumni, Alumni Associations
Ramsden, Brian – Universities UK, 2010
This report is the tenth in a series published annually by Universities UK, with the support of GuildHE, updating and expanding a rich variety of data which help us to understand higher education in the UK. Since its first report in 2001, the "Patterns" series has examined the trends in UK higher education at both the sector and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Colleges, Trend Analysis
