Failing students in higher education / edited by Moira Peelo and Terry Wareham.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Short history of failure / Gareth Parry -- Academic failure : a retrospective view from non-completing students / Mantz Yorke -- Joined-up policy approach to student support / Margo Blythman and Susan Orr -- Policy implications of student non-completion : government, funding councils and universities / Roderick Floud -- Learning to fail : learning to recover / David Cannon -- Failing teachers, failing students : learning about failure from a teaching development programme / Terry Wareham -- Open as to failure / Maggie Coats and Jo Tait -- Developing a positive approach to failure / Colin Rogers -- Redesigning success and failure / Mike Ollerton -- Student counselling and students' failure / Shirley Brown -- Administrator's tale / Terry Wareham and Lesley Wareing -- Struggling to learn / Moira Peelo -- Failing to assess or assessing failure? / Karen Hinett.

"Failing and the possibility of failing are everyday experiences in higher education, yet rarely discussed. This text explores failure from different vantage points: its social and political context; its implications for teachers and learners; and the practices and procedures of the assessment, support and administrative systems surrounding failing students in higher education." "The text integrates discussions of drop-out, retention and student progress alongside the notion of academic failure. While management of student "through-put" is of interest to politicians, educators have to manage and understand failing as an important part of the process of learning."

"This work incorporates new empirical data along with practitioner experience and analyzes practice issues within a policy framework that takes into account past and current political trends."--Cover.

"Failing and the possibility of failing are everyday experiences in higher education, yet rarely discussed. This text explores failure from different vantage points: its social and political context; its implications for teachers and learners; and the practices and procedures of the assessment, support and administrative systems surrounding failing students in higher education." "The text integrates discussions of drop-out, retention and student progress alongside the notion of academic failure. While management of student "through-put" is of interest to politicians, educators have to manage and understand failing as an important part of the process of learning." "This work incorporates new empirical data along with practitioner experience and analyzes practice issues within a policy framework that takes into account past and current political trends."--BOOK JACKET.

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