... graduates who have the specialist knowledge and skills to be able to adapt to the industry’s evolving needs? Much of the debate surrounding the standardisation of curricula content has been regarded as the influencing forces of “McDonaldization” (Ritzer, 1998) in further and higher education. Parker...

... by the UK Society for Research into Higher Education, however, synthesises many of the works of these authors, integrating their theories into a typology of adult student motivations (Woodley et al., 1987). They propose four goals in the pursuit of formal study, these are: 1. 1 to carry out...