7.3% leave the first year – Corriere.it

In Italy more and more students leave university from the first year. If in 2011-2012 the university dropout rate was 6.3%, 10 years later, i.e. in 2021-2022, it became 7.3%, the highest in recent years, with a percentage of 7.4% between male university students and 7.2% of women. To report the data The Republic on the basis of a statistical elaboration published by the Ministry of University and Research in the online Open Data section. The causes are different from economic difficulties to scarce job prospects. There is no single cause for dropping out of university, but there are many – say Camilla Piredda and Simone Argutoli of UDU, the Union of university students – the lack of guidance and tutoring programmes, the absence of psychological support, an environment university which is not always so attractive, economic difficulties and the lack of job prospects. According to the Udu, the presence of distance learning weighed on the 2021/2022 academic year.

The ministry: We are working on strengthening guidance

The serious problem and equally seriously the Mur is putting in place initiatives to support students in their university career and to counter this long-standing phenomenon. In particular, work is being done on strengthening guidance for the school-university transition to avoid dispersion, as well as on student support services through: extension of the right to study, no tax area, support for international mobility, tutoring, teaching activities , the ministry said in a statement.

Udu: students in economic difficulty are the first to drop out

We believe – the two representatives of the UDU continue – that these elements should draw attention to the condition of students in our country. It’s too easy to call big babies and ask for sacrifices from university students, saying that you have to get by, commute for two hours, do a job to make ends meet, necessarily go to the university closest to home. To all those who have said these things, an invitation to reflect on the fact that long-distance commuters and university students in economic difficulty are among the profiles who drop out more easily from studies.

Who are the students who drop out of university

From the research Ask me how I am, a post-pandemic survey conducted by the Network of middle school students, Udu and Spi Cgil and elaborated by Ires Emilia Romagna on a sample of 30,000 people including high school and university students, it emerged that the desire to abandon studies much more marked at university (33.7%) than in high school (22.7%). The rate of those who want to drop out of studies is higher among those enrolled in scientific faculties (34.8%) than in humanistic-social faculties (34.5%). Compared to the socio-personal characteristics of the students, the study had observed a greater concentration of critical issues among the so-called non-binary students (46.4%), extra-Eu 27 (33.5%), from the southern regions (29.7% ) and Islands (28.1%), students who attend school/university in a province (32%) or region other than that of residence (32.8%) and who take more than 60 minutes to reach it (34, 3%), students who have both parents with at most a lower secondary school certificate (34.4%), with both parents not employed (39.8%), and who have experienced a worsening of their economic condition (35, 2%).