Longhurst et al. (2012) in their New Zealand research with lone mothers in HE, found a mixture of guilt and pride amongst the mothers they interviewed—guilt for ‘taking time away from one’s children’ yet pride for ‘doing something to resolve dependency by participating in education’ (p...
When I did go to lectures, I was spectacularly uninspired by all but about three of my tutors. Most were nice, smart people, but they spent a long time getting through a small part of the vast volumes of textbooks the university obliged me to acquire. There was also lots of diversionary...