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Retention and success in higher education / Mantz Yorke and Bernard Longden.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Maidenhead : Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press, 2004Description: xv, 180 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0335212743
  • 9780335212743
  • 0335212751
  • 9780335212750
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 378.1982 22
  • 378.16913 21
LOC classification:
  • LC148.4.G7 V67 2004
Contents:
1. Setting the scene -- 2. Student retention : a macro perspective from South Africa / Ian A. Bunting -- 3. Access and retention in Australian higher education / Craig McInnes and Richard James -- 4. Access and retention in English higher education : a parliamentary perspective -- 5. Institutional performance -- 6. Theory : a multiplicity of perspectives -- 7. Reconceptualizing antecedents of social integration in student departure / John M. Braxton and Amy S. Hirschy -- 8. Why students leave their programmes -- 9. Succeeding against the demographic odds -- 10. Promoting student success.
Review: "Retention and Student Success in Higher Education is essential reading for lecturers, support staff and senior managers in higher education institutions, and for those with a wider policy interest in these matters."--BOOK JACKET.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 378.16913 RET (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A294150B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Setting the scene -- 2. Student retention : a macro perspective from South Africa / Ian A. Bunting -- 3. Access and retention in Australian higher education / Craig McInnes and Richard James -- 4. Access and retention in English higher education : a parliamentary perspective -- 5. Institutional performance -- 6. Theory : a multiplicity of perspectives -- 7. Reconceptualizing antecedents of social integration in student departure / John M. Braxton and Amy S. Hirschy -- 8. Why students leave their programmes -- 9. Succeeding against the demographic odds -- 10. Promoting student success.

"Retention and Student Success in Higher Education is essential reading for lecturers, support staff and senior managers in higher education institutions, and for those with a wider policy interest in these matters."--BOOK JACKET.

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