Never Give Up on the Good Times: Student Attrition in the UK

By Geraint Johnes, R. Mcnabb. 2004

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Striving to Obtain a School-Work-Life Balance: The Full-Time Doctoral Student (2013, background): “In fact, Australia (Bourke, Holbrook, Lovat & Farley, 2004; Govendir, Ginns, Symons, & Tammen, 2009), Canada (Berkowitz, 2003), and the United Kingdom (Johnes & McNabb, 2004) also report significant attrition rates.”
First year expectations and experiences: student and teacher perspectives (2009, background): “Studies from the UK, US and Australia show that retention rates, especially after first year, have been an important issue for many universities for at least the last two decades (Betts and Morrell 1999; De Rome and Lewin 1984; Johnes and McNabb 2004).”
Dropout Phenomena at Universities: What is Dropout? Why does Dropout Occur? What Can be Done by the Universities to Prevent or Reduce it? (2013, background): “…Arulampalam, Naylor & Smith (2005) Arulampalam, Naylor & Smith (2007); Belloc, Maruotti, & Petrella (2009); Di Pietro & Cutillo (2008); Glocker (2011) Johnes & McNabb (2004); Lassibille & Gómez (2008); Smith & Naylor (2001); Smith & Naylor (2001); Soo (2009) and Vignoles & Powdthavee (2009).”
Educational choice and persistence in male- and female-dominated fields (2008, background): “We note that Kanter’s theory has also received little support in previous studies of student dropout (e.g. Johnes and McNabb 2004; Sax 1996; Rogers and Menaghan 1991).”