According to its mission statement, and as stipulated in its objectives, the Council for the
Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) aims to foster and to …

This study commences a process of developing a scale for the measurement of service
quality in higher education in South Africa and also examines the relationship between the …

Lecturers in first-year Financial Accounting at a South African university assumed poor
student throughput rates were attributable to various factors, including the influence of prior …

A successful transition from school to university is crucial to academic success-especially in
the first academic year. Various studies have, however, shown that students are increasingly …

Innovation, which hitherto, was used as a term to exclusively explain development in new
technologies in the manufacturing sector, has now found an increasing usage and …

The purpose of this article is to make a contribution to the discussion on the sociological
features of higher education and the significant ways in which it comes to produce a …

The study investigated factors influencing success of first-year students in Financial
Accounting at a South African university, thereby establishing a profile of successful and at …

During the apartheid years in South Africa, career guidance amongst disadvantaged
learners was largely absent and, for many, career choices were limited and governed by …

This was a descriptive survey involving four South African higher education (HE) institutions.
Specifically, the study sought to critically investigate factors that could explain enrolment …

Finding accurate predictors of tertiary academic performance, specifically for disadvantaged
students, is essential because of budget constraints and the need of the labour market to …