A Qualitative Exploration of the Barriers Asylum Seeking Students Face When Accessing Higher Education in the UK

Using focus groups and semi-structured interviews this qualitative piece of research looked at the experience of 14 asylum-seeker background participants in terms of accessing Higher Education. Approval was given for working with this vulnerable group of adults from the Brunel Research Ethics Online (BREO). The participants did not have to be actively seeking Higher Education (although the majority were) they just had to have an interest in accessing Higher Education in the UK for themselves or their children. All participants were currently living in London. They were aged from 18 to 47. This dataset provides the transcripts from the semi-structured interviews (SSI) and focus groups (FG).

本质性研究采用焦点小组与半结构化访谈方法，探究了14名寻求庇护者背景参与者的高等教育（Higher Education）就读体验。本研究已获得布鲁内尔研究伦理在线（Brunel Research Ethics Online, BREO）的伦理审批，可开展针对这一脆弱成年群体的研究工作。参与者无需主动申请高等教育（尽管多数参与者确实有此计划），仅需本人或其子女有在英国就读高等教育的意愿即可。所有参与者当前均居住于伦敦，年龄介于18至47岁之间。本数据集包含半结构化访谈（semi-structured interviews, SSI）与焦点小组（focus groups, FG）的转录文本。