Recruiting and retaining mature students at Kent has become increasingly important in recent years so a new Kent web page, aimed at prospective and current mature students, has recently been launched.

Designed as a ‘one stop shop’ focused on the needs of mature learners, it contains information on applying, finance, support and how to gain the necessary entry qualifications by linking people to the University’s Access to HE Diploma Programme.

Demand for the page was identified by staff in the Access and Adult Learning unit of the Partnership Development Office who work with adult students on a daily basis. FE Development Officer, Ruth Westbury said, ‘The adult students that I work with in our local colleges all tend to have the same questions. They want to know if they can afford to go to university and how they can get in. We wanted to be able to direct them to one page on our website that would answer their questions.’

Kent students, including Ben Dawkins who runs the Mature Student Society for Kent Union, were involved in the design which includes videos of current mature students explaining their experiences at Kent.

You can find the page here. For more information about adult learning or the Access to HE Diploma programme contact Donna Coyte, d.l.coyte@kent.ac.uk