Poorer students can outperform others through college foundation courses
“Students from disadvantaged backgrounds who get into to university through special access routes can outperform regular students when they have on-campus foundation courses, new research shows. A study by Dr Katriona O’Sullivan of Maynooth University indicates that special-access students do better socially and academically when they have these supports in a university setting …” (more)
[Carl O’Brien, Irish Times, 6 December]
Tags: foundation courses, NUIM, social disadvantage