‘I felt like I had walked into a thick fog’: Going to university as a mature-age student

Back in the 1950s and 1960s it was virtually unheard of for someone over age 23 to commence university study – at any level. There was a general perception that older individuals had already ‘run their course’ and the idea of social mobility hadn’t taken hold. Indeed, even in the 1990s, the typical image of a university student was someone who was in their late teens, a school leaver and financially backed by their parents.

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