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Cameron Meiklejohn; Stewart Riddle; Andrew Hickey – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
This paper reflects on the recounts of a group of 'old boys' about their transition from elite schools to university. Analysis of semi-structured interview data reveals that this transition was not always straightforward. Although educational background has traditionally determined access to, and progress through, university, this paper details…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Males, Undergraduate Study, College Choice
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Teo, Ian; Arkoudis, Sophia – Higher Education Research and Development, 2019
Foundations studies programs (FSPs), sometimes termed pathways programs, seek to prepare international students for an undergraduate education. While enrolments in these programs continue to grow in Australia, there has correspondingly been little research exploring how FSP students experience their transition into university life and study. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Transitional Programs, Foreign Countries, Student Experience
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Kahu, Ella R.; Nelson, Karen – Higher Education Research and Development, 2018
Student success and retention continue to be of concern for higher education institutions. Wider participation, combined with lower completion rates for non-traditional students, highlights the need for new ways of understanding the student experience to ground policy and practice. This article provides this insight by drawing together a number of…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Academic Achievement, Well Being, Foreign Countries
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Allan, Catherine – Higher Education Research and Development, 2011
Honours study is viewed as a transition from undergraduate to postgraduate study and/or to enhanced career prospects. In Australia, Honours is usually an adjunct to the standard undergraduate degree. This paper provides an ethnographic study of 10 Australian Honours students. Seeing their experience through their reflections, in their own voices,…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Student Experience, Phenomenology
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Trotter, Eileen; Roberts, Carole A. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2006
This paper is concerned with identifying how the early student experience can be enhanced in order to improve levels of student retention and achievement. The early student experience is the focus of this project as the literature has consistently declared the first year to be the most critical in shaping persistence decisions. Programme managers…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Student Experience, Academic Persistence, Foreign Countries