1.   Ab initio is a subject taken from scratch with no prior knowledge, and this often appeals to mature students.

2.   He took a degree as a mature student at Birmingham University.

3.   He was a mature student ... I had known him in fact as a child.

4.   Indeed, he had been very vague about his student activities, describing himself as a mature student in Marketing studies.

5.   Mature students and those who do not receive the parental contribution towards their grant have always been a problem.

6.   Mature students often need practice writing academic essays.

7.   Most research on women in engineering has been done exclusively on either school-leavers or mature students.

8.   Some of them were mature students studying medicine, dentistry, law, engineering.