176 pages
228mm x 145mm
ISBN-10: 1 85856 316 X
ISBN-13: 978 1 85856 316 9
June 2003

Improving retention and completion in higher education are important objectives throughout the world. The European Access Network has followed up their successful study of widening access to Higher Education with a collection that describes positive initiatives to improve student success. The work draws upon research and practice from Australia, New Zealand, the United States of America and England. The accounts are presented here because all have proved successful in attracting, and, crucially, retaining students from traditionally disadvantaged groups.
At a time when developed countries are extending and diversifying their university intake, this book will be useful to policy makers and managers in Higher Education and will offer insights to nontraditional students considering a university course.

Dr Liz Thomas and Dr Jocey Quinn are based in the Institute for Access Studies, Staffordshire University, England and Dr Michael Cooper at Karlstad University, Sweden. They are editors of Collaboration to Widen Participation in Higher Education, and both are published by Trentham in collaboration with the European Access Network.

'I would recommend this book to higher education administrators who are interested in how various programs across the globe are working to remedy access and retention for disadvantaged students' - Journal of College Student Development