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Academic Preparation Contexts: The Case of Enabling Education and Foundation Year Programmes
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Academic Preparation Contexts: The Case of Enabling Education and Foundation Year Programmes

Marion Heron, Sally Baker and Kieran Balloo
Academic Talk for Higher Education: In Support of Equity and Academic Preparedness
Great Debates in Higher Education, Emerald Publishing Limited, 1st
05/05/2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83608-860-820261004

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As two of the alternative pathways available to students who do not directly transition into Bachelor-level study from school – Enabling Education (EE; Australia) and Foundation Years (FY; UK) – prepare students for academic study in undergraduate programmes, these pathways support equitable participation of students from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds, making them a pillar of the WP agenda. As discussed in Chapter 2, academic literacies are key to equitable participation, so it is perhaps not surprising that their explicit development is a central component of EE and FY in particular. However, what is less clear is whether this development of literacies also attends to the development of academic talk. In this chapter, we examine EE and FY programmes as two academic preparation contexts to understand how academic talk is currently positioned as part of academic preparedness.

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