Driving Student Success
This Global Community brings together practitioners, researchers, leaders and policymakers committed to improving student outcomes across the full higher education journey.
The community adopts a holistic view of student success, recognising that academic achievement, wellbeing, engagement, belonging and progression are deeply interconnected.
By sharing global perspectives and evidence-informed practice, the community supports approaches that move beyond narrowly defined measures of success to address the structural, personal and institutional factors shaping students’ experiences and outcomes.
Connecting global expertise
Student success is increasingly central to the mission of higher education institutions worldwide. Yet students’ experiences are shaped by widening participation, financial pressures, wellbeing challenges and changing expectations.
By connecting global expertise, this community:
- Supports a broader, more inclusive understanding of student success
- Enables learning across different cultural and institutional contexts
- Helps institutions respond more effectively to diverse student needs
- Contributes to more equitable, supportive and successful higher education systems globally
What the community focuses on
The community explores key questions including:
- How student success is defined and measured across different systems
- The relationship between academic experience, wellbeing and belonging
- Institutional strategies that support retention, progression and completion
- Targeted and universal approaches to supporting diverse student populations
- Using data, insight and student voice to inform success strategies
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