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Our comment is a response to a recent paper in this Journal on non-completion rates in UK universities (Johnes and Taylor 1989). The causal inferences which that paper draws are ill-founded because they are based on data aggregated to university level. Individual-level data are essential, and data on other levels may also be necessary. We make other criticisms, and also comment on implications for performance indicators.
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McPherson, A., Paterson, L. Undergraduate non-completion rates: a comment. High Educ 19, 377–383 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00133899
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