Student Retention & Graduate Destination: Higher Education & Labour Market Access & Success

Student Retention & Graduate Destination: Higher Education & Labour Market Access & Success
ISBN-10
0796923094
ISBN-13
9780796923097
Category
Education
Pages
130
Language
English
Published
2010
Publisher
Human Sciences Research Council
Author
Moeketsi Letseka

Description

Student attrition has been a perennial theme in South African higher education throughout the decade. In its National Plan for Higher Education (2001), the Department of Education attributed high dropout rates primarily to financial and/or academic exclusions. Four years later, it reported that 30% of students dropped out in their first year of study and a further 20% during their second and third years. Against this backdrop, the erstwhile research programme on Human Resources Development initiated a research project to investigate more thoroughly why students dropped out, what led them to persist in higher education to graduation, and what made for a successful transition to the labour market. The chapters in this volume address these issues in relation to one or more of seven institutional case studies conducted in 2005.

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