{"id":1655,"date":"2012-04-11T19:29:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T18:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2012-04-11T19:29:50","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T18:29:50","slug":"uk-university-drop-out-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2012\/04\/11\/uk-university-drop-out-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"UK university drop-out rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK University drop-out rates 2009-2010<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scotland: 9.4% &#8211; up from 9.3% in 2008-09<\/li>\n<li>Wales: 9% &#8211; up from 7.4%<\/li>\n<li>England: 8.4% &#8211; up from 7.8%<\/li>\n<li>Northern Ireland: 8.3% &#8211; down from 9%<\/li>\n<li>UK: 8.6% &#8211; up from 7.9%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Higher Education Statistics Agency<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Overall the trend is a rise in the number of students that drop-out. The economy and tuition fee are most likely not helping.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A lot of students struggle financially and if their parents are in financial difficulties it can lead to them dropping out.<\/p>\n<p>Drop-outs are always at the top of our agenda and something everyone looks at with a great deal of concern.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Prof John Hughes, Higher Education Wales chair and Bangor University vice-chancellor<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-17663300\" target=\"_blank\">BBC News Wales<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK University drop-out rates 2009-2010 Scotland: 9.4% &#8211; up from 9.3% in 2008-09 Wales: 9% &#8211; up from 7.4% England: 8.4% &#8211; up from 7.8% Northern Ireland: 8.3% &#8211; down from 9% UK: 8.6% &#8211; up from 7.9% Higher Education Statistics Agency Overall the trend is a rise in the number of students that drop-out. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2012\/04\/11\/uk-university-drop-out-rates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK university drop-out rates<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}