Higher Education in Bangladesh: The East West University Experience
Higher education has made a quantum leap in Bangladesh. Tertiary enrolment which was 31,000 in 1972 rose to 3.1 million in 2015; that is roughly 2 % of the population and 20 % of the cohort. In 2013, 63 % of the enrolment in universities was in the privat
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ess in Higher Education Transitions to, within and from University
Success in Higher Education
Leigh N. Wood Yvonne A. Breyer •
Editors
Success in Higher Education Transitions to, within and from University
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Editors Leigh N. Wood Macquarie University Sydney, NSW Australia
ISBN 978-981-10-2789-5 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-2791-8
Yvonne A. Breyer Macquarie University Sydney, NSW Australia
ISBN 978-981-10-2791-8
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Contents
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Success in Higher Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leigh N. Wood and Yvonne A. Breyer
Part I 2
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Transitions to University
Student Engagement for Student Success: Pre-commencement Strategies via KickStart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yvonne A. Breyer, Mauricio Marrone, Leigh N. Wood, Murray Taylor and Hajira Shaheen
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Mentoring for Success: Programs to Support Transition to and from University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christine Chung, Antonia Dykes and Jen McPherson
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Evaluation Criteria for a Science Access Program: A Case Study at a South African University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Johann Engelbrecht, Ansie Harding and Marietjie Potgieter
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Part II 5
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Transitions Within University
Student Approaches to Learning, Conceptions of Mathematics, and Successful Outcomes in Learning Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . Priscilla E.L. Murphy
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The Maths Arcade: A Tool for Supporting and Stretching Mathematics Undergraduates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Noel-Ann Bradshaw
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Practice and Pr
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