This paper examines students’ perspectives on the main transitional challenges experienced when commencing higher education. It explores which students are most affected by the transition and is the first paper to provide an overview of student recommendations to help improve the transition in an Irish context. The study involves large‐scale surveys and focus groups across four higher education institutions and explores a range of transitional challenges (including academic, social and course‐specific aspects). Over 1,100 student suggestions to improve transition are analysed and many of these recommendations could be easily implemented beyond Ireland. Ten overall recommendations are made which include, among others, specific supports for mature students and those with longer commuting distances, course‐specific introductory skills modules to be given by current students, a first year ‘starter’ pack with course‐specific orientation materials, and the introduction of a student‐shadowing programme for prospective students.

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学生对爱尔兰过渡高等教育的看法：挑战，影响和建议

本文探讨了学生对开始高等教育时所遇到的主要过渡挑战的看法。它探讨了哪些学生最容易受到过渡的影响，并且是第一篇概述学生建议的论文，以帮助改进爱尔兰语境下的过渡。这项研究涉及四个高等教育机构的大规模调查和焦点小组，并探讨了一系列过渡性挑战（包括学术，社会和课程特定方面）。分析了1100多个学生建议以改善过渡，这些建议中的许多建议可以在爱尔兰以外的地方轻松实施。提出了十项总体建议，其中包括对成熟学生和通勤距离较长的学生的具体支持，