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Firfirey, N.; Carolissen, R. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2010
There is little research exploring poverty amongst university students, which renders poverty on university campuses invisible. This study aims to begin to understand experiences and constructions of poverty among university students. The qualitative study design uses open-ended, in-depth interviews in which four students from a university in the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Campuses, Qualitative Research
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Lourens, A.; Smit, I. P. J. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2003
Universities and technikons have been struggling to meet the demands of growing numbers of students who enter higher education with limited skills. Higher Education literature abroad provides an exhaustive range of theory about the reasons for students leaving (cited in Strauss & Volkwein 2002), as well as proposals for positive intervention.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Predictor Variables, Foreign Countries, Grade 12