SANRC FYE Presentations 2017

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First year students
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 Attendance need to be monitored (first generation students)
 Interactions with first year students should be monitored to identify
possible problems
 Interventions can be recommended early to lower the failure rate
 First time that they are away from small/rural towns
 New environment/city
 Change from school to university (different environments)
 More freedom
 New friends
 Intimidating environment – bigger class groups
 Vulnerable, emotional, financially stressed  high dropout rate