STUDENT PEER SUPPORT INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION ROAD TO SUCCESS PROGRAMME: A CASE STUDY - University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) AurHoRs: Mr Danie de Klerk* Assisnt Dean: Teaching and Leaing; Head: M Teaching and Leaing Centre Ms Tshepiso Maleswena* Coordinator: Road to Success Programme; Lecturer: M Teaching and Leaing Centre Mrs Linda Spark* Senior r: Informan Sysms Division, School of Business Sciences *Faculty of Commee, Law and Management M) The University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) is a large, research-intensive public university in South Africa, located in Johannesburg (the country's economic hub). Wits consists of five diverse faculties, has 1160 full-time permanent academic employees (in addition to many sessional and professional/administrative staff), and boasts nearly 41 000 enrolled students across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Within the Facul of Commerce, Law and Management (CLM) (where the initiative discussed here resides), there are approximately 10 300 students across the faculty's undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, with roughly a 50:50 split between the two. The Road to Success Programme (commonly referred to as the RSP) is the name of CLM's student success and support unit, which forms part of the faculty's Teaching and Learning Centre. However, rather than a structured programme that takes students through a series of tasks, activities and learning opportunities, Academic and Peer Advisors work together to provide holistic support (Lawton & ner, 2020) 32