Adapting to change: Motivations, Barriers, and Opportunities to Mature-Age Study, made by Year13 in collaboration with the University of New England (UNE), examines the motivations, challenges and decision-making processes of people who are planning to do mature-age university study, revealing how universities can better support future mature-age students of all ages and from all locations.
The study focuses on prospective mature-age university students aged 18 to 65 in Australia who are actively planning to enrol in university in the coming years when they are aged 21 or older. Of the 1005 people surveyed for this report, 86% are actively considering future university study with the majority of them wanting to start within the next five years..