1 In 6 First Year University Students Will Drop Out
Posted September 21, 2009 11:03 am.
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It’s troubling news for students and their parents: a recent survey from Statistics Canada found that 1 in 6 first-year university students will drop out.
And it’s their high schools that are to blame, according to some professors.
The research found that teachers and teens alike believe that secondary education does not adequately prepare them for their first year of university
The Youth in Transition Survey found that the overall post-secondary dropout rate was about 16 per cent. But for first-years, it’s about 14 per cent.
But the poll also suggest that students who left school were already struggling with meeting deadlines, academic performance and study behaviour in their first year.
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