April 24, 2008

Students dropping out due to debt

It has been found from a survey by the National Union of Students that there are many students who are just dropping out from college or university, not because of the work involved, but simply because they just cannot face the debts that they are accumulating.

In this case the NUS surveyed students in Scotland, where it was found that out of 500,000 students an astonishing 165,000 said that they may not finish their courses because of the debts that can be built up over the period of time that they are studying.

The problem is that there may be enough advise and information around, but when students are first thinking about going into further education they want to know about the place of education and the course, the cost is not taken into consideration and it is only when the student starts the course that the true extent of what is at stake.

Source [Scotsman]