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Student success as the end goal:
Key question 1: What does student success mean?
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For the individual students:
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Gaining the knowledge, skills, attributes and formal qualifications required to
enable them to realise their intellectual, career and personal aspirations
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For the country and society at large:
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Ensuring that graduate output and outcomes
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in terms of numbers, quality,
equity, mix of fields, and attributes that take account of the contemporary
world
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are sufficient to provide the advanced knowledge and skills needed
for all forms of development
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the goal must be successful completion of studies, without which access has little
or no value
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The CHE’s Quality Enhancement Programme defines student success as:
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‘Enhanced student learning with a view to increasing the number of graduates
with attributes that are personally, professionally and socially valuable’
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