Postgraduate Student Retention and Success: A South African Case StudyThis monograph is the posthumous publication of the first part of Charlton Koen's PhD thesis in which he examines the main factors influencing the retention and success of master's students at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). Sadly, he passed away before completing his analysis of the extensive data he had collected, which was to have formed the second part of his doctorate. |
Contents
THE STUDYS ORIGINS AND MOTIVATIONS | 1 |
THE ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK | 21 |
REVIEW OF LITERATURE ON MASTERS STUDENTS | 41 |
Copyright | |
Common terms and phrases
academic and social academic practices academic staff academics and students analysis apartheid Baird behaviour cent Chapter characterised Charlton Koen's commitment community of practice conceptual concerns context coursework doctoral students drop-out economic emphasises enrolment environment example Faculty focus full-time funding further Gennep goals graduate Higher Education highlighted historical historically black universities impact important increased indicate influence institutional interactions international literature involved issues Koen learning master's and doctoral master's programmes master's students mini-thesis natural sciences norms part-time students participant observation Pascarella perspectives PhD students PhD thesis postgraduate students problems promote psychological questionnaire relationship research training retention and success role scholarship socialisation sociological South African literature South African studies structure student departures student experiences student numbers student outcomes student retention student success students and academics supervision technikons theoretical Tinto undergraduate University of Stellenbosch UWC's Western Cape writing