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Hi Pauline


I wouldn't dispute the current importance for a moment. The cost of failing in the UK in 1997 (If I remember correctly) was about £1,000 tuition fees & loan of up to £3,000-ish. It seems like a relatively carefree time to look back on (now I know I'm getting old) compared to now.


In our first year survey, we ask a question about doubting (have you ever considered dropping out from your course?). We had the fewest doubters immediately prior to the introduction of the much higher fees. They could see the personal consequence of dropping out and then studying under the higher fee regime. The year of new fees doubting sky rocketed


I do worry about UK student indebtedness, but I feel that for my entire time in HE, we've been discussing students as customers/ partners/ consumers and higher costs/ jeopardy don't help that at all. I think unfortunately we have to play with the hand that we've got.



Ed


From: Pauline Ridley <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 06 January 2019 22:25:26
To: Foster, Ed
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Subject: Re: Student Retention Literature (definitely low priority an ignorable)
 
Hi Ed - I’ll leave others more qualified to respond re research literature but my immediate take on this is that student retention as an increasingly urgent agenda issue within HE has been driven by the policy/ funding landscape - and I wouldn’t necessarily expect there to be a direct correlation with research on the topic, when VCs and politicians are looking for quick fixes rather than a more nuanced understanding of the underlying issues? 

Best wishes
Pauline
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On 6 Jan 2019, at 22:12, Foster, Ed <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear all 



I'm working my way through a paper (woo) on improving student retention and I keep coming across phrases such as "student retention has become an increasingly important agenda recently". I'm having a slightly twitchy reaction to this (I think it's because I'm getting old) because it's just not true.


So


I reckon that the first significant studies into retention/ students success are:


UK - Yorke et al & Ozga & Sukhnandan (1997) Undergraduate non-completion in higher education in England


Australia - McInnis, C. and James, R., with McNaught, C. (1995) First year on Campus, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne/Australian Government Publishing Service. 


USA - Tinto (1975) (although I think most people have only read the 1993 book (miaow))


I've blogged it, but am I miles out? Are there really important antecedents that I'm missing?


And


  • Anyone from a country not mentioned got thoughts on early work in your own national context?
  • Any thoughts on significant studies/ reports/ edited books (published in 2010 or otherwise)? 



Best wishes and happy new year



Ed





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