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              <text>A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF FACTORS HINDERING A- LEVEL STUDENTS&#13;
WITH HIGH PASSES TO ACCESS UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN ZIMBABWE.&#13;
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              <text>The study sought to investigate factors hindering increased access to higher education in&#13;
Zimbabwe. The study was prompted by the increased number of A-level graduates who are&#13;
failing to get the opportunity to university education yet higher education is the driver to&#13;
knowledge creation, knowledge generation and innovation. The study employed the&#13;
qualitative methodology informed by the interpretive philosophy. The case study design was&#13;
employed in this study. Purposive sampling was employed to select information rich cases&#13;
who in this case are A-level students who were pursuing teacher training in colleges and dean&#13;
of students of colleges and universities. Open-ended questionnaires, semi-structured&#13;
interviews focus groups and document analysis were the data generation tools. For data&#13;
presentation and analysis, the constant comparative method was employed and themes were&#13;
generated. The major findings of the study were that high achieving students are training as&#13;
teachers yet they have points that qualify them to go to university. Policy issues, economic&#13;
challenges, culture, gender and discrimination emerged as issues hindering potential students’&#13;
access to university education. The study concluded that there are barriers hindering&#13;
Advanced-Level high achieving students’ access to university. In view of the conclusions&#13;
above, the study recommends that educational policy on access to universities, be interpreted&#13;
and implemented holistically. It is further recommended that the government avail funds and&#13;
resource materials towards access to university and more information on access be&#13;
disseminated to schools through, radios, newspapers and workshops. From the findings an&#13;
emergent model has been crafted to illuminate haze ideas on how to increase access to&#13;
university education in Zimbabwe</text>
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