Exploring the factors influencing young adult carer students’ engagement with targeted support in Higher Education.

Young adult carers (YACs) face significant barriers to both access and retention in higher education. Accurate data on the number of YACs is unavailable, due in part, to students staying ‘hidden’ because of perceived stigma and/or lack of recognition of the label ‘YAC’.  This paper focusses on the...

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Main Author: Emma Richards
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDinHE) 2023-09-01
Series:Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education
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Online Access:https://journal.aldinhe.ac.uk/index.php/jldhe/article/view/930