2018 Special Issue: Student Engagement and Retention in Higher Education

Abstract

We are delighted to present the 2018 Special Issue – Student Engagement and Retention in Higher Education.  Practitioners, researchers and scholars know that student retention arises from a complex combination of student, institutional and external factors that manifest differently for individual students.  Simple performance metrics focused on student characteristics, cohorts or institutional initiatives delivered as ranking or rating systems, are unlikely to deliver improvements in performance, unless the complex contextual factors underlying the reasons students stay or leave are more widely considered.