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The large number of students enrolling in university for the first time has challenged assumptions and expectations about the nature of the undergraduate university experience – experiences that have their origins in the elite system of higher education some 30 years ago. (McInnis & James, 1995, p. 4).
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Laming, M.M. (2012). Changing Assumptions and Expectations. In: Laming, M.M. (eds) The New Inheritors. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-621-2_1
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