Access with success: the reaching for excellence and achievement program at the University of the Witwatersrand

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dc.contributor.authorNdaba, Mthobisi
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-04T12:10:49Z
dc.date.available2018-06-04T12:10:49Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.descriptionA research report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Sociology, 2017
dc.description.abstractSince the debut of democracy, there has been an increase in the number of historically marginalised Black students in South Africa’s higher education institutions. However, this has not been accompanied by a corresponding success rate. Higher education’s response to this success crisis has largely been academic development programs. While extensive research has been done on academic development programs, more especially quantitative research in disciplines like maths, natural sciences, and economics, not much qualitative research has been done on extracurricular academic development programs in the humanities and the social sciences. In this study, I explore the role of the Reaching for Excellence and Achievement Program (REAP) in students’ journeys graduation. REAP is an extracurricular academic development program at the University of the Witwatersrand. The findings show that students from disadvantaged backgrounds are not a homogeneous group and that this influences the types of challenges that they encounter at university. They show that REAP played a significant role in facilitating these students’ progress to graduation. They also reveal that academic development programs by themselves are not enough to address the success crisis facing students from disadvantaged backgrounds because the root causes of some of the challenges they encounter can only be addressed at a structural level. Based on the lessons learned from the findings of this study, I make recommendations for future academic development programming. Keywords: Access, Success, Academic Development, Under-preparedness, Educational Inequality, Higher Educationen_ZA
dc.description.librarianGR2018en_ZA
dc.format.extentOnline resource (iv, 117 leaves)
dc.identifier.citationNdaba, Mthobisi (2017) Access with success: the reaching for excellence and achievement program at the University of the Witwatersrand, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, <https://hdl.handle.net/10539/24567>
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/24567
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshCollege student development programs--South Africa
dc.subject.lcshCounseling in higher education--South Africa
dc.subject.lcshAcademic achievement--South Africa
dc.titleAccess with success: the reaching for excellence and achievement program at the University of the Witwatersranden_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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