University Pathway Programs: Local Responses within a Growing Global Trend: Local Responses within a

Part 1 - University Pathway Programs: a response to global, national and local needs in students' transition to Higher Education.- 1. University Pathway Programs: Types, Origins, Aims and Defining Traits.- 2. Positioning Pathways Provision within Global and National Contexts.- Part 2 - The Role of University Pathway Programs in Addressing Issues Related to Access, Equity, Inclusion and Participation in Higher Education.- 3. The use of enabling programs as a pathway to higher education by disadvantaged students in Australia.- 4. Great Expectations: African Youth from Refugee Backgrounds and the Transition to University.- 5. Alternative access to tertiary science study in South Africa: Dealing with 'disadvantage', student diversity, and discrepancies in graduate success.- 6. Huakina mai te tatau o t u whare: Opening university doors to indigenous students.- 7. Qatar University Foundation Program: A Means to Access Higher Education and a Pathway for Transformation.- 8. Come one, come all: The question of open entry in enabling programs.- Part 3 - Transitions from the Vocational to the Higher Education Sector.- 9. Filling the Skills Gap in Australia - VET Pathways.- 10. The TAFE/VET pathways student experience in Higher Education.- 11. Seamless segues from Polytechnic to University: A New Zealand case study of a dual provider partnership.- Part 4 - Issues of Curriculum and Pedagogy in University Preparation Programs.- 12. Pathways and praxis: designing curriculum for aspirational programs.- 13. Students on the threshold: Commencing student perspectives and enabling pedagogy.- Part 5 - Internationalisation and Privatisation of University Pathway Programs.- 14. Quality and innovation for international pathway programs: good practice and recommendations for the future in the UK context and beyond.- 15. Canada's First International Partnership for a Pathway Program.