New students' in South African higher education: Institutional culture, student performance and the challenge of democratisation

Perspectives in Education

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 6-18

  Cross, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

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