Learning for Life
The frameworks
of student retention
Everyone working with education is concerned with retention. When a students stops attending and eventually drops out, it can be for a variety of reasons. The reasons can be good (i.e. shifting career, good job-offers), and they can be less good (i.e. social problems, or problems finding the right subjects). We focus on the latter, and we believe that most of these reasons are forseeable and avoidable. Schools and universities that know the reasons for lack of attendance and know the possibilities for handling them, can harvest great benefits for the students, their institutions, and society as a whole.
This site presents our project "learning for life". A comparative study into the causes of retention issues and ultimately the best practice handling it. Please read more in our E-book https://learningforlife.systime.dk/
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Introduction
This project is a Erasmus+-supported joint venture of Coleg Cambria (Wales), Axxell (Finland), University of Lower Silesia (Poland), and Campus Vejle (Denmark, lead partner). We all have tackled the retention challenge in different ways, and all agreed to help eachother finding a best practice. We ended up focusing on 2 parameters: Fleksibility towards accomodating the exact educational needs of the students, and support-initiatives targeting students threatened by early school-leaving.
Project partners
We are 4 partners in this Erasmus+ - project, as described in the introduction. In many ways we are quite different: Learning culture, teacher/student-roles, as well as the societal framework, varies between us. But we do - as most educational institutions in the EU - face the same challenge - student retention. Early school leaving is a servere societal and personal problem. Between us we have outlined ideas for a best practice concerning this.
E-book
Our E-book contains our methods and analysis, and our conclusions on best practice concerning student rentention. The book is published by the major danish e-book publisher systime - https://learningforlife.systime.dk/
© 2017 by Campus Vejle - Denmark
