Keeping Students in Higher Education

Relationship between Entry Grades and Attrition Trends in the Context of Higher Education: Implication for Open Innovation of Education Policy

“…From an educational point of view, reference [15] define student retention as the process through which students can be assisted in terms of meeting their requirements, thereby facilitating them to persevere in their educational endeavors. Thus, apart from non-continuation, there are other terms which have been frequently utilized to elucidate and signify the theme of student retention.…”

Learner engagement as social justice practice in undergraduate emergency care education: An exploration of expectations, impediments and enablers for academic success

“…As student roles are changing, students, in this study and elsewhere, face a multitude of social and personal issues that intrude into the educational setting and influence persistence and retention. [1] The undertaking of paid work was found to contribute, rather counter-productively, to university attrition in the UK. [22] The financial challenge extends beyond the cost of study to the preceding state of poverty from which students come, lack of financial support from/for family and insufficient income (if any) during the study period.…”

“…The study did not measure the competence of educators, their awareness of diversity, and their sensitivity to learner differences, and how they make use of these demographic differences in teaching and learning. [1] Future research into a customer focus among this population should ascertain the participants' learning styles [32] and the programme readiness to satisfy these. In the final analysis, the duty to provide meaningful educative opportunity is overwhelmingly in the hands of the educator, [26] but the learning potential depends on the extent of learner engagement, [33] which is limited somewhat by the abovementioned factors.…”

“…The nature of diversity this presents requires higher education institutions (HEIs) to understand the educational aspirations, aims, resources and realities of their students. Understanding this diversity, sets the stage for a student-centred response to retention and persistence, [1] where students remain the critical actors in their own education.Diversity in HEIs has increased, [2] partially owing to the widening of access to HEIs and a grass-roots demand for the realisation of constitutional rights. [3] In a South African (SA) study on the gap between students' expectations and experience, it emerged that the intensity of such a gap can negatively affect the goal of achieving access and success among learners from diverse backgrounds.…”

“…The nature of diversity this presents requires higher education institutions (HEIs) to understand the educational aspirations, aims, resources and realities of their students. Understanding this diversity, sets the stage for a student-centred response to retention and persistence, [1] where students remain the critical actors in their own education.…”