On May 21st, the Study Support Team and the Library got together to share different perspectives and points of views they have read in the article provided from the conversation under the title:
(When students fail, many do nothing about it. Here’s how unis can help them get back on track).
Article selection was based on the concept of the roles of study support and library through helping students who fails. The article discusses the research has been done at Swinburne university to understand reasons of failure, roles of academic advisors as well as the roles of students to improve academic progress after failure. The research has been conducted with 230 students who have been notified of their unsatisfactory academic progress.
Here is some of the main points discussed in this meeting to help our students who are at risk of academic progress:
- Making sure understand their roles in the academic progress process and a suggestion has been raised that raising student awareness of the importance of academic progress in the orientation week would help students understands their academic responsibility to avoid an early failure in the first session.
- All universities have procedures to identify students who fail multiple units in a semester or fail the same unit multiple times. These processes would pick up students who fail half their units, especially in their first year.
- Study Support Team aims at changing behaviour and developing new study habits as well as building a personal support network.
- Most students named multiple and compounding reasons for failing, including financial struggles, disability, and care or work responsibilities. These underlying issues cannot be resolved quickly, by students or universities
- Everyone has a role to do helping students achieve well.
Recording can be accessed here: