We are heading into summer here in New Zealand and as we approach the end of the semester, we are dealing with results. I am always interested in the student who didn’t quite achieve. What happened? Did they realise they were not going to get through? What could they have done about it? Did they fully understand the criteria they would be assessed on? It is particularly striking here, because most of our students have come to one of the most remote parts of the world, either as refugees, or as international students, to move on academically and . . .
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