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Seeing university “ghost” students
A quarter of university fail grades represent ‘ghost students’, who remain enrolled in undergraduate units but show no evidence of participation, new research has shown.
The study, led by Dr Bret Stephenson from La Trobe University and funded by the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE) , found improved identification and support is required for ‘ghost students’, particularly Indigenous students who are at a high risk of ghosting behaviours.
“This form of student disengagement and unit failure frequently goes unnoticed at institutional and national levels and can be obscured by high-level metrics such as ‘success rate’,” Dr Stephenson said.