Digital & Computing
Unmasking inequalities: what COVID-19 revealed about the degree awarding gap at The Open University
...economic disadvantage, digital poverty, overcrowded housing, frontline work responsibilities and mental health challenges as key hurdles disproportionately affecting ethnic minority learners. These factors often intersected. A student juggling NHS shifts, caring responsibilities and unreliable broadband was more likely to disengage, defer or underperform – not due to...