“…Although progressing foundation degree students have studied at higher education level for their first two years in a higher education (HE) environment within an FEI, their first (and only) year at a university may be at level 6. Progressing foundation degree students, therefore, may not only need to overcome a physical transition from an FEI to an HEI and have to become accustomed (very quickly) to new lecturers, the campus, bigger classes, the library, the social life including new people and how the university works (Greenbank 2007(Greenbank , 2010Penketh and Goddard 2008;Winter and Dismore 2010) but also may have to get used to a transition in terms of differences between academic culture and expectations that may exist between dualsector FEIs and single-sector HEIs (Greenbank 2007; Barron and D'Annunzio-Green 2009;Hussey and Smith 2010). This may include differences in academic approaches, with the latter (HEIs) being said to be more likely to focus on criticality, analytical thinking, in-depth reading and independent or autonomous learning (QAA 2005;Greenbank 2007Greenbank , 2010Hussey and Smith 2010).…”