“…Such students include older students (Bennett et al, 2007;Bourgeois et al, 2009;Chao & Good, 2004;Forbus et al, 2011;Hart, 2003;Kim, 2002;Rosário et al, 2014;Scott & Lewis, 2012;Tilley, 2014), those coming from disadvantaged socioeconomic conditions (lower socioeconomic statuses or minority ethnic groups; Thomas, 2002), those with broader previous educational and work experiences (Billett, 2014), and those with discontinuity in their studies (Kasworm, 2018;Souto-Otero & Whitworth, 2017). In the Czech Republic, where the current study took place, nontraditional educational trajectories and higher ages have already been used as criteria to distinguish NTSs in HE (Novotný et al, 2019). In this paper, we use the term NTSs to describe students over 26 years of age who had a break of at least one year in their formal educational trajectory somewhere between high school and university.…”