M.Ed. (Educational Psychology) / The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of academic support program in the National Diploma Business Administration to determine. It is primarily a literature review but questionnaires were analyzed. Academic support programs at other tertiary institutions studied. There are also different types of academic support programs look. At the Vaal Triangle Technikon is the academic support program in Business Administration phased due to the need to students who exist for the course. Since type as a prerequisite to the course serves, many of them students from attending the course. It also happens that even students to are admitted on the basis of a typing or computer course to a training center or college is not able to cope...