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Topham, Phil; Moller, Naomi; Davies, Hannah – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2016
Social anxiety in learning is prevalent amongst traditional-age students and has a marked effect on their engagement with higher education. It receives little attention from academic or support services and there is a presumption that students will manage their anxieties. Yet it is unclear what psychosocial resources they might bring to this task…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Anxiety, Qualitative Research
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Guillen Solano, Victor – Practitioner Research in Higher Education, 2016
In recent years UK universities have attracted an increasing number of international students. Their socialisation into different academic practices greatly depends on their ability to write in English since writing is the main way in which students demonstrate their learning at university. This paper looks into the widely-shared view that tutor…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Foreign Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Mann, Catherine – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Disproportionate numbers of underrepresented minorities (URMs) work in health professions as compared to minority representation in the general population. Meeting the health needs of a population is predicated on health provider racial concordance. A qualitative, phenomenological approach was used to explore 10 faculty participant's lived…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Needs, At Risk Students