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Tasneem Hassem; Victor de Andrade; Sumaya Laher; Nabeelah Bemath; Katherine Bain – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2024
The transition in learning trajectories, academic pressures and stressors associated with financial and societal pressure that South African postgraduate university students experience places them at risk of mental health difficulties. For these students, their mental well-being has been further threatened due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Psychology, Mental Health
Jade Jansen; Badrunessa Williams; Azmatullah Latief – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2024
This study aimed to identify whether gender differences exist related to the motives, expectations and preparedness of students entering accounting studies at a South African university. A questionnaire was used to gather the data from a sample of first-year students and t-tests were employed to identify differences in findings between gender…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Gender Differences, Expectation, College Readiness
Jessica Versfeld; Caitlin Vinson – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2024
The purpose of the study is to explore the advantages of study groups for first-year engineering students in a challenged Global South context. The research aims to explore how the support and resources provided by the peer-led study groups can help students cope with the stressors and challenges that are often associated with the transition to…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Attitudes, Engineering Education, Communities of Practice
Nina Rossouw – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2024
The transition into higher education is a challenging process for many students. Students are often underprepared academically (amongst other aspects). This under-preparedness influences students' subsequent academic performance, and ultimately, overall student success. Research has shown that successful student transition into higher education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, College Bound Students, Transitional Programs
Angella Kogos; Tom Kwanya; Lucy Kibe; Erick Ogolla; Claudia Onsare – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2024
Deans of students are the main points of contact between the university management and the students they serve in Kenyan universities. This position exposes them to acts of hostility both online and offline. This article explores the experiences of deans of students in Kenyan universities with cyberbullying. It specifically analyses the prevalence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Deans
Thembekile P. Skakane; Ntombifikile G. Mtshali; Sandiso Ngcobo – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2024
The shortage of nurses is a global crisis, particularly in remote and rural communities. Contributory factors are retirements, resignations, recent increased deaths due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the reduced production of nurses because of high attrition rates. This article's purpose was to investigate the provision of student support in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nursing Education, College Students, Student Personnel Services
Elmarie Costandius; Gera de Villiers; Leslie van Rooi – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2024
This article asks the central question of how to practically engage in the ongoing production of space at Stellenbosch University (SU) as to reimagine and redefine spaces. Spaces, which affect people indirectly and subconsciously, can act as microaggressions on one hand and places of safety connected to identity on the other. The Visual Redress…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Visual Environment, Educational Facilities Design, Educational Environment
Linda Meyer; Birgit Schreiber – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2024
This article delves into the formidable obstacles first-generation students (FGS) encounter within the South African private higher education sector which locates the study on which it is based in the literature around the overall experience of first-generation students. Extensive research has underscored the various challenges faced by FGS,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Colleges, Universities, First Generation College Students
Dumile Gumede; Maureen Nokuthula Sibiya – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2023
This article reports on a qualitative study that explored self-care practices among first-year students in managing stressors related to the first-year experience in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Qualitative data were collected using a purposive sample between March and June 2022. A total of 26 first-year students registered at a…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Self Management, Well Being, Story Telling
Lamese Chetty; Brigitta Kepkey – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2023
In South Africa, many students enter university without the skills required for success in higher education. Extended curriculum programmes (ECP) were developed to provide students who showed potential but were underprepared with the necessary foundations to achieve success in higher education. Student support services are essential to student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Support Services, Student Participation, Program Effectiveness
Mikateko Mathebula; Carmen Martinez-Vargas – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2023
Universities in South Africa have the potential to advance various dimensions of human development, including well-being. However, this potential can be constrained by historical processes of oppression and the negation of indigenous ways of being and doing. Applying the capabilities approach (Sen, 1999) as a normative framework for the outcomes…
Descriptors: African Culture, Universities, Well Being, Longitudinal Studies
Andrea Juan; Adam Cooper; Vuyiswa Mathambo; Nozuko Lawana; Nokhetho Mhlanga; James Otieno Jowi – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2023
Graduate transitions and pathways do not naturally involve moving smoothly or sequentially from education into the world of work. Instead university graduates move through employment, entrepreneurship, unemployment and continued further education as they generate livelihoods. For African universities to be student-centred, with a focus on student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, College Graduates, Scholarships
Alude Mahali; Tarryn de Kock; Vuyiswa Mathambo; Phomolo Maoba; Anthony Mugeere – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2023
This article presents a collection of narrative examples on how a cohort of African graduates, who are beneficiaries of a scholarship from a global foundation, understand and practice giving back. The scholarship programme aims to cultivate and support a network of like-minded young leaders who are committed to giving back by providing training…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, African Culture, Training
Sonja Loots; Francois Strydom; Hanlé Posthumus – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2023
Technology is key to making education systems more resilient to disruptions. In the South African higher education sector, technology will continue to play a much larger role than the years preceding the COVID-19 pandemic. Technology, however, cannot replace the value gained through social contact and concerns about relational disengagement in…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Learner Engagement, Technology Uses in Education, Undergraduate Students
Chanaaz Charmain January – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2023
Student affairs practitioners and researchers are well positioned to contribute holistically to student success and as such could play a strategic role in the transformation of higher education. The aim of this article is to illustrate that a key strategic objective of student affairs is to contribute significantly towards student success. This…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Change