DC.title: Between Metrics: Rethinking 21st Century Student Success in Ireland
DC.creator: Rebecca Roper
DC.date: 2026-01-15
DC.description: This discussion paper explores how student success in higher education is understood, defined and supported in contemporary Irish and international contexts. It brings together international research, national policy and insights from student focus groups conducted in Ireland in 2025 to examine success beyond traditional metrics such as retention, progression and completion.

The paper presents a holistic and relational view of student success, foregrounding belonging, mattering, agency and wellbeing alongside academic and outcomes-based measures. It situates student success as simultaneously student-defined, institution-enabled and outcomes-oriented, and considers the implications of this framing for teaching, learning, policy and system-level practice.
DC.identifier: https://hub.teachingandlearning.ie/resource/between-metrics-rethinking-21st-century-student-success-in-ireland/
DC.publisher: National Resource Hub
DC.language: en-US
DC.format: application/pdf
DC.type: Article
DC.subject: Equity and Inclusion
DC.subject: Higher Education Policy
DC.subject: student success
DC.subject: Student Voice
DC.subject: student wellbeing
DC.subject: Teaching and learning
DC.relation: https://hub.teachingandlearning.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/between-metrics-rethinking-21st-century-student-success-ireland.pdf