Keeping Students in Higher Education: Successful Practices and Strategies for Retention

While governments and society drive hard to get increasing numbers of young people into higher education, colleges and universities are faced with the issue of keeping them there. This timely book looks at the issues surrounding student drop outs, and presents a practical "how to" guide to identifying problems and developing practical solutions to the problem of retaining students. This is an issue of strong interest world wide, particularly as higher education moves into an era where funding is dependent on student numbers and where new forms of teaching and larger groups of students make traditional pastoral care increasingly difficult