Improving Student Retention in Higher Education provides a practical, curriculum-based response to the current situation in higher education, where participating students emanate from a range of backgrounds; international and lower socioeconomic backgrounds, mature aged students, students with disabilities as well as those for whom higher education is the first family experience.

Underpinned by research indicating that students are more likely to continue with higher education if they are engaged in their studies and have developed networks and relationships with their fellow students, this book presents best practice examples of innovative and inclusive curriculum, from a range of countries.

Improving Student Retention in Higher Education provides a practical, curriculum-based response to the current situation in higher education, where participating students emanate from a range of backgrounds; international and lower socioeconomic backgrounds, mature aged students, students with disabilities as well as those for whom higher education is the first family experience.

Underpinned by research indicating that students are more likely to continue with higher education if they are engaged in their studies and have developed networks and relationships with their fellow students, this book presents best practice examples of innovative and inclusive curriculum, from a range of countries.

Published in the practical "Case Studies in Teaching in Higher Education" series, this volume focuses on the support programmes that all higher education establishments have in place to aid and develop student learning. The work is designed to equip any HE professional with a responsibility or interest in learning, or in student retention, with an accessible guide to some of the best practices in this field from around the world.;Broken up into three sections ("Relating to Students", "Developing Students' Academic Skill", and "Working with Staff"), the cases include: mentoring students from different backgrounds; assisting students struggling to use computers; working with students who have a past; supporting students from gay and lesbian groups; intercultural miscommunication; encouraging self-directed learning; preparing "non-mathematical" students for mathematics; helping first-year students survive a course with a very high failure rate; developing information literacy skills; integrating language and academic support; supporting students with English as a second language; assisting students with dyslexia; developing relationships with teachers in order to affect change; developing generic skills; and working with learning support staff.