Pat Young
University of the West of England
32 Papers
145 Citations
Pat Young is an academic researcher from University of the West of England. The author has contributed to research in topics: Higher education & Nurse education. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 32 publications.
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Papers
Out of balance: Lecturers perceptions of differential status and rewards in relation to teaching and research
TL;DR: This article found that the impact of new developments to enhance teaching and learning are undermined by the persistent low status accorded to teaching, with rewards of tenure and promotion accruing to research or administration.
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Should I go or should I stay? A study of factors influencing students' decisions on early leaving
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on selected findings from a multi-method research project on student retention on a nursing program and suggest that, in most cases, decisions to leave cannot be reduced to single factors but are the culmination of complex interacting factors.
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Propriety, process and purpose: considerations of the use of the telephone interview method in an educational research study
TL;DR: In this paper, a study carried out in Higher Education (HE) investigating student withdrawal is described, which explores the ethics of interviewing by telephone a group of former students, issues that arose in the carrying out of the research, particularly relating to the quality of the data; and the impact of the study's purpose on its conduct.
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'Scholarship is the word that dare not speak its name' lecturers' experiences of teaching on a higher education programme in a further education college
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined provision of higher education within further education institutions from the point of the view of lecturers working on an HE programme, focusing on a Combined Studies degree program.
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Help is just a text away: The use of short message service texting to provide an additional means of support for health care students during practice placements
Pat Young,Emma Moore,Garfield Griffiths,Rosi Raine,Rob Stewart,Matthew Cownie,Manuel Frutos-Perez +6 more
TL;DR: Although the students made less use of the service than was anticipated, both staff and students were positive about the potential of this type of communication in providing an additional form of support for students in placements.
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