There are many and varied factors at work here. Not just internal motivators but some external, the desire to follow a leader in a field or hopefully even a teacher into their chosen specialism are especially relevant. Educators can encourage performance, recognise and reward learning and teach strategy for learning at this level even in the school years leading up to tertiary (higher education?) institutes. Both academic and non -academic policies should be formed with this in mind and if possible recognise these other factors. However, it has to be recognised also that some of the factors are completely outside intitutes control - the familial expectation, cultural norms, expectation of future rewards and even personality can play a great part.

So I am sorry to conclude that I don't think that there is a substantive answer for individual students or their institutions.

Hallo, well i agree with Mr. Smythers, i guess it is more an internal motivation about what the students want for their life, professional or personal, as well of course have to do with the teachers that had encouraged us to move on, no matter what, be cause there are some situations that could affect the develempment of one person such economics factors, personal life or merely academic, also there is the disases that may affect ocassionaly the person in question, but at the end it is only yourself who has to motivate for reach what you most want, doesn't matter if in your school don't receive the enough support, you have to look out for the opportunities to find a way to follow a path that leads you at the end for your major.

Have a nice day.

Thank you so much, Mr. Smythers and Ms Stepanie, for your valuable sharing. I want to investigate five main factors that contribute to the student' s academic success or educational quality including the coherent academic curriculum and extra curricular activities (1), qualified lecturers and lecturing (2), sufficient and modern facilities (3), financial support and scholarship (4), and effective engagement between academic staffs and students (5). Please kindly help to find other factors related to this question. Thank you in advance! With my very best wishes,

The quality of the lecturer, the preparation of his lessons, the why in which the students are "forced" to attend classes - a prof friend of mine use unanounced tests to ensure that his mining students attends their classes. And it works. Problem is that a lot of students attends only the first weeks classes, then only before tests and before they realize it, they do not have enough credentials to write exams or complete the year.

While I agree that internal factors influence the academic success of the students I also fear that the motivation of others in the class can negatively influence those students who first come to the class expecting to learn. It is the challenge of the teacher to have to deal with a large majority of students who have no motivation beyond passing the course while truly trying to help those (few) who actually are interested in the content of the course.

I think the potential factors contribute towards students academic success in higher learning is-teaching based on understanding level,academic motivation,internal motivation by the teacher, developing attitude towards self study,organizing doubt clear class,seminar,group discussion etc.

@Sam -sorry for the late response but I have been busy! You could expand your factor of engagement of students and staff to reflect the relationship between the two, the respect that this brings is contributory. As for resources such as a modern facility it is not as important as the other and only works in the way of a "hygiene factor" ref. Herzberg i.e. good facilities will not automatically make good results but will improve the chances of these results as it allows higher order motivators to increase performance.

You may also like to consider the value of ongoing staff development and their own learning ( which is mentioned indirectly by other contributors such as David Olds and Pramod Naik above) as well as their initial qualification in terms of student performance. Regards

I think the main factors are the students' interest in the topic studied and his readiness to accept the material.

I think the library (being well-equipped) and library support staff (being well qualified and well trained) are key. Higher education deals with a lot of self learning, as such students who are assisted on how to use the library to do this, will stand a better chance to succeed. No matter how well equipped a library is, students of higher institutions will need help to make the best use of library facilities and the library support staff should provide that.