Dropping out of college is not always a bad thing. About 50000 or 20 percent of the 250000 students enrolled this year will drop out by the end of the year, says (The Grattan Institute) of the Gratham Institute.
About 800,000 people have decided not to complete a bachelor`s degree in the full-Australian range. This is often seen as a weakness in the system of higher education, but the Institute says it should be easier and more explicit for some students to arrive at an early age. This will help some students to be free from large debt on their back, and may prompt them to move into a vocational education course or to enter the workplace, and eventually to drop out of school.
Almost 100% of 12-year students apply to college. That number has remained the same since the 1990s, although the ATAR system was originally designed to remind students that they might not be able to complete a college degree.
The cost of going to college is very low. Even if you apply to a number of universities, it will cost less than 100 yuan. So students can easily start this 60% even if they don`t have any particularly interested schools or courses.
And the drop-out rate among freshmen is low because universities have limited ways of assessing whether students are likely to graduate, in addition to the ATAR.
But Andrew Norton (Andrew Norton), director of higher education at the Gratham Institute, says it is generally possible to drop out of school for free in the first month of admission, and then drop out of school for a fee. However, few students receive any feedback in the first four weeks and do not realize that they are carrying school debt.
He says some universities are trying to reverse that. The University of Tasmania, which lost nearly 40 percent of its staff in the first phase, decided to evaluate all students before the deadline for drop-out, which has reversed the drop-out rate. Swinburne uses advanced software to track all aspects of students` studies in the first few months, warning of any possible drop-out.
About 30 percent of drop-out students already have 5000 yuan in debt when they leave, but those who study science or law, or who have dropped out of college for a few years, will have a bigger debt. Among those who dropped out of school before graduation, 12% had debts ranging from 20, 000 to 30, 000 yuan.
"We want people to benefit from higher education," Norton said. "if all they get is debt, it`s a bad thing."
University education experts say university education has become the default choice for most high school graduates, but if people can understand more clearly how difficult it is to complete a university degree, Those who are more suitable for vocational training may consider this option more quickly and at a lower cost.
The major group that dropped out of college was part-time and half-time students. About 18% of freshmen are working part-time, with about 40% dropping out of school within a year.
Norton says universities need to do more to provide part-time students with information about risk factors. Most part-time workers have a job or family burden and end up unable to do so.
Most students are unaware of the limited time to complete their degrees. In most cases, this means that full-time students need to study at least three subjects a year. And universities have failed to make this clear.
Clarity is a problem for college admissions. Norton said that the university called the deadline for free drop-outs "census" day (census date), although school managers can understand, but a survey showed that 2/3 of students do not know what this means.
"they really have to change their words." He said。
