Internationally, research has been conducted on factors affecting students' academic
success as measured by time to degree completion. Investigating these factors is important …

The aim of the study was to investigate the differences between the academic success and
the factors contributing to the success of first-and continuous-generation students in higher …

Notwithstanding the substantial transformation of education in South Africa in the last 20
years, specifically to redress the past inequalities, the challenges are ongoing. These …

This qualitative study explored and described South African students' experiences and
perceptions regarding academic success. Focus group participants related academic …

Globally, online (or e-learning) environments are growing in popularity in schools and
universities. However, the language of instruction in these environments is mostly English …

The year 2015 saw the most unprecedented student protests since apartheid South Africa.
The issues ranged from decolonisation of the curriculum to no paying of fees to challenging …

Language portraits are useful instruments to elicit speakers' reflections on the languages in
their repertoires. In this study, we implement a “portrait-corpus approach”(Peters and …

South African universities face major challenges in meeting the needs of their students in the
area of academic language and literacy. The dominant medium of instruction in the …

As part of a broader student campaign for 'free decolonized education', protests over
language policies at select South African universities between 2015 and 2016 belied …

Academic and quantitative literacies (AQL) are essential to success in higher education.
These literacies are largely not explicitly taught, but acquired indirectly, mostly through …