The first semester of university life; 'will I be able to manage it at all?'

Higher Education

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 351-366

  Gibney, Amanda ^a   Moore, Niamh ^a   Murphy, Feargal ^a   O'Sullivan, Sara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

First year; Motivation; Skills; University transition; Workloads

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051663722     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-010-9392-9     Document Type: Article

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