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The Siyaphumelela (“We Succeed”)[1] project was set up in 2014, by SAIDE, in response to a need to improve student success and graduation rates with evidence based support[2] The Kresge Foundation, sponsored SAIDE to manage the programme and four institutions to receive four-year grants

  1. the University of the Witwatersrand,
  2. University of Pretoria,
  3. University of the Free State and
  4. Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

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Background

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Higher learning in post apartheid South Africa opened the doors to teaching and learning, to a large proportions of first generation students. They then discovered that there student success.[4]

Conference

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The Siyaphumelela annual conference is intended to use data and analytics to promote student success[5]