2018 Special Issue: Student Engagement and Retention in Higher Education

We are delighted to present the 2018 Special Issue – Student Engagement and Retention in Higher Education.  Practitioners, researchers and scholars know that student retention arises from a complex combination of student, institutional and external factors that manifest differently for individual st...

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Main Authors: Ella Kahu, Jason Lodge
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Southern Queensland 2018-12-01
Series:Student Success
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Online Access:https://studentsuccessjournal.org/article/view/1141
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