FACTORS AFFECTING GRADUATION AND STUDENT DROPOUT RATES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL

This paper aims to introduce into the literature a competing risks methodology that Horse Leads can be used to help identify some student-specific and/or institutional factors which may be influencing the type of outcome experienced by a student when they leave the university system.Focusing on the length of time that it takes students to graduate

Teaching foreign languages has adopted various approaches over the history.The last decades of dominance of the Communicative language teaching brought the tendency to insist on the target language use in the classroom in order to allow the immersion into the language.The European Union, however, started to support linguistic diversity more than tw