Abstract

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 Lifelong Learning Programme under Key Activity 1 “Policy Co-operation and Innovation” of the Transversal 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 noncompletion in relation to non-traditional undergraduate students (young and adults across a wide age range) in higher education on a comparative European basis