Access and Retention: Experiences of Non-traditional Learners in HE

This literature review is part of the project ‘Access and Retention: Experiences of Non-Traditional Learners in HE’. The project is funded by the European Commission LifelongLearning Programme under Key Activity 1 “Policy Co-operation and Innovation” of theTransversal programme. It has eight partners from seven different countries: England,Germany, Ireland, Poland, Scotland, Spain and Sweden.The overall aim of this project is to examine issues of access, retention and noncompletionin relation to non-traditional undergraduate students (young and adults acrossa wide age range) in higher education on a comparative European basis