With the increasing availability of high-quality longitudinal data on students in higher
education, scholars' interest in how students proceed through higher education has risen …

Resumo Ter sucesso no Ensino Superior é hoje muito mais do que concluir um curso ou
obter um elevado rendimento académico. As instituições e as políticas educativas estão …

Given the challenging transition from secondary school into higher education, this quasi-
experimental study measured the effects of a pre-academic programme (ie before starting at …

This study examines the profiles of self-regulation of learning, peer learning and peer
support among students. The study investigates whether the profiles differ in terms of …

The previous two decades have seen much improvement in the first-year experience of
students attending university. Yet for a significant proportion of students, coping with …

In view of recent changes in the higher education sector, such as increased tuition fees, a
greater focus has been placed on widening participation initiatives and monitoring student …

This paper reports on an international collaborative study that investigated how students
from rural contexts negotiate the transition to university, and how prior cultural and …

There is currently much interest in the interconnections between research and teaching in
Higher Education. This relationship is usually termed 'the research/teaching nexus'(RTN) …

Although the support provided by social relationships may be essential to a successful
student transition, the transition to postgraduate study has had little consideration from a …

Existing ways of understanding the transformative potential of students' undergraduate
experiences either focus solely on the formal educational elements of these experiences or …