41.   Finally the presence of mature students did not distort Sears overall analysis.

42.   The authors conclude that universities can have confidence in admitting carefully selected mature students even if they lack formal entry qualifications.

43.   Walker P The university performance of mature students.

44.   However, he found that mature students as a whole obtained better degree results than non mature students.

45.   There was no statistical difference between these two groups of mature students.

46.   Mature students below thirty years of age obtained significantly better degree results than the student population as a whole.

47.   Walker suggests that if there is an optimum age for mature students it is likely to be in the late twenties.

48.   Mature students in Higher Education.

49.   A study of mature student performance in British universities.

50.   Woodley studied the performance of mature students at all UK Universities.