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Factors explaining the academic success of second-year economics students: an exploratory analysis
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2011)
Factors influencing the academic success of first-year economics students have been intensely researched. Lecture and tutorial attendance, age, gender, as well as matriculation results have been identified as significant ...
Exploring student engagement practices at a South African university: student engagement as reliable predictor of academic performance
(SUN, 2016)
Student engagement is one avenue to explore how the experiences within and beyond the classroom impact student persistence behaviours. This article contributes to the sparse research in South Africa on the correlates of ...
Examining the performance of the South African economics departments, 2005-2014
(Wiley, 2017)
This study examines the teaching and research activities of 17 Economics Departments in 2005-2014 by consulting the information from each university’s faculty prospectus, publication in accredited local and international ...
Investigating the significance of the 2008 Matric curriculum on first-year Economics performance
(UNISA Press, 2011)
The academic success of first-year Economics students has been the focus
of many South African studies in Economic Education. Many used the last
school examination (Matric) results as a proxy for students’ academic ...
Reflecting on racial discrimination in the post-apartheid South African labour market
(University of Cape Town, 2014)
During the 20th century, South Africa’s economy became increasingly ordered and controlled along racial lines.
Since the official demise of apartheid in 1994, the State has implemented various policies aimed at redress.
In ...
Multidimensional poverty in South Africa in 2001–16
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
This study uses the Census 2001 and 2011 as well as Community
Survey 2007 and 2016 data to derive a multidimensional poverty
index in South Africa for each year, before assessing the changes
in non-money-metric, ...
Exploring student engagement practices at a South African university : student engagement as reliable predictor of academic performance
(Higher Education South Africa (HESA), 2016)
Student engagement is one avenue to explore how the experiences within and beyond the classroom impact student persistence behaviours. This article contributes to the sparse research in South Africa on the correlates of ...
The comparability of the statistics South Africa October household surveys and labour force surveys
(Stellenbosch University, 2017)
Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has been collecting labour market data with household surveys and in a fairly comparable format since 1993. These datasets have been studied and compared extensively in order to better ...
Improving the targeting of zero-rated basic foodstuffs under value added tax (VAT) in South Africa - An exploratory analysis
(Stellenbosch University, 2012)
VAT without any exemptions or zero-rating is regressive. Since the inception of VAT in South Africa, there has been an ongoing debate around the issue of zero-rating to alleviate the burden on poor households. This paper ...
Poverty and inequality trends in South Africa using different survey data
(Stellenbosch University, 2010)
There is an abundance of literature adopting the monetary approach (i.e., using per capita income or expenditure variables) to derive poverty and inequality trends for South Africa since the transition. The most commonly ...