An attempt to incorporate flexibility in physics laboratories: laboratory immersion

In 2005 the New Lisbon partnership for growth and jobs was launched. It seeks to reform the continent’s still fragmented systems into a more powerful and more integrated, knowledge based economy. Subsequent communications from European policymakers have only strengthened the belief that higher education institutions will be crucial to Europe’s future well being. In this way it is important to increase lifelong learning opportunities, to widen higher education access to non-traditional and adult learners [1-3]. The project we report on, aims to create a flexible study pathway for these non-traditional students in the field of physics laboratory education.