Student Success
Monday, October 12
Exploring Learning Happiness Among Indonesian Students Amidst Heavy Academic Workloads Through the Balinese Philosophies of Tri Hita Karana and Tri Kaya Parisudha
Student happiness plays an important role in promoting academic engagement, well-being, and meaningful learning experiences in higher education. This study examined the level of learning happiness among students at the Ganesha University of Education (Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha), Bali, Indonesia, within the…
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Monday, October 5
How do First-Year, First-Time Regional University Students Respond to Expectation-Experience Mismatches?
First-year, first-time (FYFT) students enter university with expectations shaped by institutional recruitment communications, social media, and broader media narratives. During transition, lived experiences may diverge from these expectations, creating expectation-experience mismatch. While student expectations and…
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Tuesday, September 22
Using Administrative Data to Support Early Student Success: Predictors of First-Semester Performance in a Puerto Rican Public University
First-semester performance is a practical indicator of students’ transition into tertiary education and a point at which institutions can intervene early. This study examined an analytic dataset of 2,048 incoming students admitted to 10 academic programs in the College of Business Administration at the University of…
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Friday, September 18
Teaching in University Settings: Vignettes of Student Engagement
As access to tertiary education has increased worldwide, the importance of understanding the complexities of student engagement has become progressively evident. Yet, studies on student engagement are frequently abstract, and commonly informed by statistics on completion rates. Understandings of student engagement at…
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Friday, September 11
Financial Precarity and Psychological Wellbeing in Higher Education: A Qualitative Study of UK University Students
Financial precarity has become an increasingly prominent feature of the contemporary higher education experience, with growing evidence linking financial hardship to adverse psychological outcomes for students. This study explored how undergraduate students at a post-1992 United Kingdom university experience and make…
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Friday, September 4
Resonating or Missing the Mark? Indigenous Students’ Perspectives on University Marketing Communications
This study explores the perspectives of Indigenous Australian students on the marketing and communication materials of higher education institutions, highlighting their crucial role in attracting Indigenous students and revealing a lack of authentic engagement with Indigenous voices. While outreach and enabling…
doi.orgDesigning and Evaluating an Interactive Self-Compassion Exhibition as a Low-Threshold Student Well-Being Initiative in Thai Higher Education. A Practice Report
Student well-being is increasingly central to student engagement, belonging and success in higher education. Yet many students do not readily approach counselling or psychological services, especially when concerns are emerging or associated with stigma. This practice report describes and reflects on “SWU Heal Jai…
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Monday, August 17
From First Contact to Continuity: Developing a Record-Informed Follow-Up Pathway in a Moroccan University Counselling Centre. A Practice Report
Continuity after first contact is a practical challenge for university student support services, particularly during the first-year transition. This practice report documents the development phase of a service improvement initiative in a Moroccan public university science faculty. Fully de-identified routine records…
doi.orgBelonging, Academic Stress and Intentions to Discontinue: The First-Year Experience in a Widening Participation Context
Many first-year students discontinue their studies, creating a concerning challenge for institutions, especially those with widening participation policies. Chilean higher education provides a case study for understanding the first-year experience (FYE) in a widening participation context and rapidly expanding…
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Sunday, August 9
The National FEE‑FREE Uni Ready (FFUR) Project, Report on Policy Settings and Best Practice Guide. A Good Practice Report
This good practice report outlines findings from the recently completed National FEE‑FREE Uni Ready (FFUR) Project (2026) to share the work and recommendations on FFUR policy settings and principles. Together, these aim to strengthen transitions into higher education for underrepresented cohorts. We focus on…
doi.orgFrom Data to Practice Change: Co-designing a Subject Dashboard That Enables Inclusive, Evidence-informed Teaching. A Good Practice Report
Higher education institutions are increasingly data-rich yet insight-poor, with learning analytics often experienced by academics as difficult to interpret and disconnected from everyday teaching practice. Transition pedagogy emphasises that intentional inclusive practice relies on educators having a clear,…
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Monday, July 20
Pre-Arrival Motivation Among Postgraduate Taught Students Entering a United Kingdom University: An Exploration Through Self-Determination Theory
This study provides rare insight into postgraduate taught (PGT) students’ motivations for entering university by capturing views before arrival rather than after enrolment. Drawing on responses collected in the weeks prior to course commencement, it presents a large-scale pre-arrival qualitative analysis across…
doi.orgLinking Narrative Identity and Learning Dispositions to Enhance University Student Wellbeing
As student wellbeing concerns rise in higher education, understanding how students make meaning of their experiences may offer insight into their approaches to learning. This multistage mixed-methods study, combining explanatory sequential and convergent components, investigated how university students’ narrative…
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Saturday, July 18
Perceived Institutional Support and Psychological Well-Being Among International Students in Universities in India: The Mediating Role of Student Engagement
This study examines the relationships among perceived institutional support (PIS), student engagement (SE), and psychological well-being (PWB) among international students in Indian higher education. Data were collected via an online survey from 201 international students and analyzed using partial least squares…
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Thursday, July 16
Generative AI-first Maths Support at a Regional Australian University
Maths support has long been present in Australian tertiary education, primarily as a physical space staffed by tutors and complemented by asynchronous resources and accessible via integration into course curricula. This format has proved effective in improving student retention and transition (Horrocks et al., 2026)…
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