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- ItemPossible contributors to students’ non-completion of the postgraduate nursing diploma at Stellenbosch University(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010-12) Essa, Ilhaam; Bitzer, E. M.; University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Education. Department of Curriculum Studies. Centre for Higher EducationENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this research report I have argued that postgraduate student retention and completion rates in nursing education can be enhanced by attending to the following actions: increased institutional support, initiating students into an ethics of care, and engaging students and lecturers in some form of dialogical communication. In order to ensure that students do not prematurely depart from their programme of study, I have shown that it is not sufficient to offer merely institutional (mostly administrative) support to students, but also cultivating caring and dialogical communication in teaching and learning activities. My argument in defence of caring and dialogical communication is corroborated by an empirical investigation which confirms students’ non-completion and retention in the non-clinical postgraduate nursing education programmes offered by Stellenbosch University’s Nursing Division in 2008.