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The participation profile in the South African higher education (HE) system has undergone significant changes over the past ten years regarding race, gender, but especially in the size of the system. Overall, student enrolments increased from 2008 to 2013 by 23 per cent (from 799,490 in 2008 to 983,698 in 2013), and the participation rate in HE (i.e. the total headcount enrolment as a percentage of the entire population between the ages of 20 – 24 years old) was in 2012 at its highest, namely 19.2 per cent (up from 17 per cent in 2011) (CHE, 2016).
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Fourie, C.M. (2017). The Role of Academic and Non-Academic Factors on the Development of a Sense of Belonging Among First-Year Students. In: Dent, S., Lane, L., Strike, T. (eds) Collaboration, Communities and Competition. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-122-3_9
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