Tables | p. vii |
Figures | p. ix |
Acknowledgements | p. xi |
Postscript | p. xiii |
Acronyms and abbreviations | p. xiv |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Background to the study | p. 1 |
Organisation of the monograph | p. 5 |
Uniformity and disjunction in the school-to-higher-education transition | p. 11 |
Introduction | p. 11 |
Findings from the Student Retention and Graduate Destination Study | p. 12 |
Observations arising from the analysis | p. 20 |
Poverty, race and student achievement in seven higher education institutions | p. 25 |
Introduction | p. 25 |
South Africa: Two nations | p. 25 |
Poverty in the Student Retention and Graduate Destination Study | p. 27 |
Race and poverty | p. 29 |
The apartheid legacy in education | p. 32 |
Reasons for premature departure | p. 34 |
Financing studies | p. 36 |
The National Student Financial Aid Scheme | p. 37 |
Conclusion | p. 39 |
Student inclusion and exclusion at the University of the Witwatersrand | p. 41 |
Introduction | p. 41 |
Racial desegregation | p. 42 |
Staff integration | p. 44 |
Curriculum integration | p. 46 |
Institutional culture integration | p. 50 |
Conclusion | p. 51 |
Dropout or stop out at the University of the Western Cape? | p. 53 |
Introduction | p. 53 |
An institutional case study | p. 54 |
The Student Retention and Graduate Destination Study at UWC | p. 55 |
Conclusion | p. 64 |
Weighing success and diversity in the balance at Stellenbosch University | p. 67 |
Introduction | p. 67 |
Measuring success at Stellenbosch University | p. 68 |
Success factors | p. 70 |
Non-completion at Stellenbosch University | p. 76 |
Changing Stellenbosch University's diversity profile | p. 80 |
Conclusion | p. 84 |
The graduate labour market | p. 87 |
Introduction | p. 87 |
Measuring the performance of the South African graduate labour market | p. 87 |
Graduate labour market outcomes among the study cohort | p. 89 |
Graduate employment | p. 90 |
Conclusions | p. 94 |
Student graduation, labour market destinations and employment earnings | p. 97 |
Introduction | p. 97 |
Data | p. 97 |
Higher education transition: A descriptive overview | p. 100 |
From higher education to the labour market: A snapshot of trends | p. 107 |
Graduation, employment and earnings: A multivariate analysis | p. 112 |
The determinants of labour market outcomes: Employment and earnings equations | p. 117 |
Conclusions | p. 123 |
Afterword | p. 125 |
Contributors | p. 129 |
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