This book highlights the problems that have developed as students lack either the social or cultural capital to take the opportunity of Higher Education through conventional routes. This might be due to leaving school early, lacking entry qualifications or wanting to further their education and prospects after entering the workplace. Foundation courses help to widen participation and create a route towards higher education. This book offers tried and tested practical solutions, from the notion of widening participation, to recruitment of students and to ways of helping them to make the most of themselves and develop the skills they need to progress on degree courses of their choice. 

Foreword.- Preface.- Chapter 1. Barriers to Accessing Higher Education; Catherine Marshall.- Chapter 2. Understanding Foundation Year Provision; Steve Leech, Catherine Marshall and Geoff Wren .- Chapter 3. Language Issues Facing Non-Traditional Students: Some Problems and Solutions; Megan Bruce, Simon Rees and Julie Wilson.- Chapter 4. Teaching Mathematics to Adults: Integrating New and Old Knowledge; Mary Dodd, Jean Mathias and Sam Nolan.- Chapter 5. Breaking Barriers: Overcoming Anxieties in Practical Science; Sam Nolan, Simon Rees and Carole Rushall.- Chapter 6. Selecting Mature Learners: A Toolkit for Admissions Tutors; Ian Moreton.- Chapter 7. Challenges and Opportunities in Using Facebook to Build a Community for Students at a UK University; Nick Pearce and Sarah Learmonth.- Chapter 8. Engendering an Online Community: Supporting Students on the Transition into UniversityLife; Sam Nolan, Megan Bruce & Steve Leech.- Chapter 9. Culture Shock: Applying the Lessons from International Student Acculturation to Non-Traditional Students; Catherine Marshall and Jean Mathias.- Chapter 10. Students’ Academic Emotions, Their Effects and Some Suggestions for Teaching Practices; Douglas P. Newton.- Chapter 11. Adjusting Teaching Practices for Mature Adults to Incorporate Understandings of Affective Processes and Self-Efficacy in Mathematics; Mary D. Dodd.- Chapter 12. Upwards Trajectories; Catherine Marshall.