The purpose of this institutional ethnography was to uncover the ruling relations shaping student success efforts at large research universities. Using this critical qualitative approach, we examined the tensions between university leaders' efforts to enhance student success and the persistent disparities in retention, progression, and graduation…

The main controversy as a result of the commercialisation of international education markets is that international students especially those from China are unable to perform as well as UK students in UK universities. So far, research has yet to identify the influence of placements on the academic performance of Chinese students from entry to…