Higher Education in South Africa
(ISBN 978-1-920338-14-5)
Editor: Eli Bitzer
Publication date: October 2009

This title should be of considerable interest to higher education researchers outside South Africa. The researchers have engaged with research and writing from many parts of the world, which they have then applied to make sense of their own condition.

- Malcolm Tight, Lancaster University, UK

Focus on First-year Success
(ISBN 978-1-920338-12-1)
Editor: Brenda Leibowitz, Antoinette van der Merwe, Susan van Schalkwyk
Publication date: November 2009

The importance of the first year experience is now well recognised. This collection of papers makes a fascinating and important contribution to our understanding of students’ transition to higher education.This is a scholarly, engaging and illuminating text, that is relevant not only in the context of South Africa but for anyone interested in student learning in the first year of university education.

- David Gosling, Plymouth University (USA)

The book will have immense value for all curriculum and teaching and learning specialists in higher education, those based in national agencies, in the centralised teaching and learning-related units of universities, and in particular faculties, departments and developmental projects.

- Terry Volbrecht, Cape Peninsula University of Technology (South Africa)