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dc.contributor.authorWoodfield, Ruth
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-11T00:34:11Z
dc.date.available2019-02-11T00:34:11Z
dc.date.issued2017-04-05
dc.identifier245527891
dc.identifier14c88ff7-3f7f-4aa7-980c-0a3fa765ac56
dc.identifier85012912213
dc.identifier000398592600003
dc.identifier.citationWoodfield , R 2017 , ' Undergraduate students who are required to withdraw from university : the role of ethnicity ' , British Educational Research Journal , vol. 43 , no. 2 , pp. 230-252 . https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3259en
dc.identifier.issn0141-1926
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-7442-3186/work/90567740
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/17031
dc.description.abstractA large body of international research focuses on identifying reasons why students do not ‘persist’ (Tinto 2007) within higher education. Little research has focused on students whose leaving is non-voluntary and where narratives of ‘persistence’ are therefore not as pertinent. This article seeks to refocus some of the attention onto the distinct group of students who do not elect to leave their studies but who are, instead, required to withdraw; in English higher education, such students leave under ‘Academic Fail’ and ‘Exclusion’ categories. More specifically, it explores the relationship between student leavers’ ethnicity and their likelihood of being required to withdraw. Utilising a large dataset comprising UK-domiciled undergraduate students enrolled to take a degree within an English HEI in 2010-11, it finds that most groups of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) students are more likely to be required to withdraw than White students. Ethnicity exerts an independent impact on a student’s likelihood of being required to withdraw, when other background and on-course characteristics are controlled for, but this impact varies by disciplinary area. It is suggested that these findings implicate factors within the HE sector itself as key drivers in the process that leads to students being required to withdraw. Lessons are drawn out for those tasked with managing the student experience within higher education.
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dc.format.extent424928
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofBritish Educational Research Journalen
dc.subjectHigher educationen
dc.subjectNon-voluntary withdrawalen
dc.subjectEthnicityen
dc.subjectDisciplineen
dc.subjectH Social Sciencesen
dc.subjectL Education (General)en
dc.subjectSocial Sciences(all)en
dc.subjectBusiness, Management and Accounting(all)en
dc.subject3rd-DASen
dc.subjectBDCen
dc.subjectR2Cen
dc.subject.lccHen
dc.subject.lccL1en
dc.titleUndergraduate students who are required to withdraw from university : the role of ethnicityen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Higher Education Researchen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Managementen
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/berj.3259
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2019-02-11


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