help re uni dropout?

Floss

charlie... wrote: »

if he completes two years he will have a diploma (or should have)

He shuld get one - my son got his sent out automatically with all his credits on. Useful for future study...but difficult to explain to an employer.

mountainofdebt

JCC

Can I suggest you come to a 'deal' with your son?

Why not suggest he completes the 2nd year in full (assuming that he hasn't taken his end of year exams yet) and afterwards he starts looking for a job. If at the end of the summer he still hasn't found a job, he goes back to Uni, completes his degree by which time - hopefully - the economic situation is better and he can get a job in what ever field he wants.

By getting his degree he will have more options open to him than he has at present, even he chooses not to follow a career using his degree directly.

Obviously you will have talked with him about his course and what he hates about it but could it be that he is worried about his performance and sees it as a better option to quit than be thrown off the course which he might be worried that he will be?

wordsearch

I've been in his situation. I quit a few months into uni because I hated everything to do with it. I left - and had to repay back all the money from the loan company, but that was easy enough as I hadn't really been spending it - and went onto JSA. I stayed unemployed the entire time as despite applying for pretty much every single job that came up I couldn't get anything aside from underpaid summer work.

Annnnd that is why I gave in and went back to uni, haha Hopefully your son will have better luck than I did.

nickoran

mountainofdebt wrote: »

JCC

Can I suggest you come to a 'deal' with your son?

Why not suggest he completes the 2nd year in full (assuming that he hasn't taken his end of year exams yet) and afterwards he starts looking for a job. If at the end of the summer he still hasn't found a job, he goes back to Uni, completes his degree by which time - hopefully - the economic situation is better and he can get a job in what ever field he wants.

By getting his degree he will have more options open to him than he has at present, even he chooses not to follow a career using his degree directly.

Obviously you will have talked with him about his course and what he hates about it but could it be that he is worried about his performance and sees it as a better option to quit than be thrown off the course which he might be worried that he will be?

I couldnt agree more, he doesnt seem to have much of a grasp of how much better the prospects can be with a degree. Even if he does go to work i think he would soon be persuaded into finishing the degree when the person next to him earns twice as much for staying 1 more year at uni.

floss2

nickoran wrote: »

I couldnt agree more, he doesnt seem to have much of a grasp of how much better the prospects can be with a degree. Even if he does go to work i think he would soon be persuaded into finishing the degree when the person next to him earns twice as much for staying 1 more year at uni.

I would suggest that you tactfully ask him if he is struggling with the work - if this is the case, then he may not make the grade to continue into his final year.

If he decides to leave & then go back then he also needs to ensure he can actually do that. He will also need to ensure that he gets the best possible grades in any exams or assignments in order to support his re-application.

duchy

I think it's one thing to leave uni with a plan -it's another to have no idea.
If he loves uni but hates the course I think he should definitely look at speaking to his tutors about transferring with course credit. He's done two years and has essentially 8 months of uni left-is it really so unbearable to see it through-especially as he'll get JSA and nothing else and will presumably be paying you keep out of that until he finds a job. He might hate been broke with fewer prospects even more unbearable. A degree even if he job hunts in an unrelated field is going to be worth so much more on job applications than 2 years and then dropped out -which implies unreliability to employers and may do more harm than a poor degree.
In your situation I'd be helping his find alternatives to the dole first -and seeing it as a last resort not a first. To answer your other question-as he's an adult you won't get anything extra to keep him