THOSE interested in the third-level learning experience of mature students from backgrounds of lone parenthood and unemployment may like to look at a report by Ted Fleming and Mark Murphy called College Knowledge - power, policy and the mature student experience at University.

It is produced by the Centre for Adult and Community Education at the NUI Maynooth, Co Kildare, and its focus is on students who are in receipt of the Department of Social, Community and Family Affairs' third-level allowance.