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Lifelong Learning Project - School Inclusion - Preventing Early School Leaving

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TITLE OF THE PUBLICATION:

Dropping Out: A Study of Early Leavers from Higher Education - 2003

SURNAME AND NAME OF AUTHOR(S):

Rhys Davies and Peter Elias

PUBLISHER:

Department for Education and Skills

PLACE AND DATE OF PUBLICATION:

United Kingdom 2003

TYPE OF PUBLICATION:

Research Report No.386

LANGUAGE/S OF PUBLICATION:

English

LANGUAGE OF REVIEW:

English

DESCRIPTION OF CONTENTS:

Slightly dated but comprehensive report aimed at trying to find out why so many students drop out of higher education and how the drop out rate could be reduced.

The main influencers identified then were:

A mistaken choice of course (24% of respondents)
Financial problems (18% of respondents)
Personal problems (14% of respondents)

The main factors which would have encouraged them to stay on were:

More financial support (18.7% of respondents)
Encouragement from tutors (12.2% of respondents)
Ability to change course (9.4% of respondents)
More advice prior to entry (8.8% of respondents)

COMMENTS ON THIS PUBLICATION:

Interesting report but I found the content disappointing in that lessons do not appear to have been learned since 2003.

Many of the reasons and beneficial actions identified then were again identified as reasons and actions which would have helped, during our interviews conducted in 2008, for this project.

WHERE TO FIND IT:

www.dcsf.gov.uk then put in document title in search box

NAME OF COMPILER:

Roger Murfin

NAME OF INSTITUTION:

Wilsthorpe Business & Enterprise College

ROLE:

Business Manager



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15 November 2012

Stay@School at the Future of Education Conference

The Stay@School projet will be presented at the third edition of the “Future of Education” international conference, held in Florence, Italy, on 13 - 14 June 2013. Over 250 participants from all over the world will attend the conference. The conference participants belong to the sectors of higher education, school education, vocational education and training as well as adult education, therefore representing all of the target groups of the Stay@School project.

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