A qualitative investigation of factors affecting students’ performance at university: Nudhar

Nudhar is an Psychology honours student at UKZN. Her research project aimed to have in-depth contextual factors related to high and low academic achievement in the University of KwaZulu Natal. Thematic analysis was used to analye two focus groups which provided a broad understanding of the reasons which contributed to one group of students performing well in high school and then do not achieve as well at university and for another group of students who did not perform well in high school but have succeeded at university.