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Bas T. Agricola; Fiona Veraa; Mieke van Diepen; Louise Elffers – Journal of Postsecondary Student Success, 2024
The transition from secondary education to the first year of higher education is a phase in which students are faced with many challenges. First-year students may lack the academic capital that is needed to understand explicit and implicit rules of higher education. We investigated students' participation in a preacademic program and the…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Student Adjustment, College Freshmen, Student Experience
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Duarte, Joana; Günther-van der Meij, Mirjam – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2022
The paper focuses on translanguaging practices of highly skilled refugees in a transition program in Dutch higher education. The pathways for refugees to enter higher education are full of obstacles. Acquiring the new language at a university level is one of the biggest challenges. Many institutions offer 'transition programs' to prepare refugees…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Language Usage, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Belyakov, Alexander; Cremonini, Leon; Mfusi, Mankolo; Rippner, Jennifer – Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2009
Increased student access to higher education institutions has been associated with the recent proliferation of higher education opportunities throughout the world. Various countries have undertaken numerous initiatives to increase access, such as the Netherlands with its involvement in the Bologna Process and the United States with Achieve Inc.'s…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Transitional Programs