Hi all

Do you have any students who have dropped out or had to leave the course?

Do you know why they left? Is it usually things like money, not spending enough time with their kids, they realised it wasn't what they wanted after all?

Just wondering really. Was trying to get my 10 month old back to sleep last night & it was a question that just popped into my head!

Sharon x

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LOL- no one in my cohort has dropped out because they weren't spending enough time with their kids!! Guilt, maybe, but not enough to actually leave!
We have had people drop out for illness reasons, because they decided it wasnt really for them, because academically is was a bit tough going, some people have left because they are pregnant, but hope to rejoin at a later date, and another couple of miscellenous personal reasons.
Think that about covers it.
Our cohort started with 30 i think, and by the end of the first year we were down to 21. We had a couple of people rejoin so now we are back to 23. It's a really small number but great for learning.
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Only a handful dropped out/took time out on my course, me being one of them. I will be returning tho.

I echo what Olly says above but would add that some drop out as the course is very demanding and if you have alot going on, like a divorce, house sale, new family, health issues as I did, something has to give.

Feeling guilty about leaving/settling the kids is something we all have to deal with, but there are always good reasons why someone drops out/takes time out and the guilt isnt that common a reason, in my experience. The Unis try hard to set holidays with school holiday times so you get quality time off at home with the kids.

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J, not ALL uni's have holidays within school holidays. Last year my summer break was in september after the summer break for schools. Most reasonable unis have their holidays to coincide with the schools shall we say.

There are many reasons why someone would drop out. in my uni failing exams is the top of the list, others decide its not for them or have an illness or life outside midwifery makes it impossible to do midwifery at that time and so deferring for a year or a few months occurs. We have had a couple join our cohort from the year ahead of us after time out.

Hi I have 2 friends who have dropped out for totally different reasons. Friend 1 dropped out 6 months in to year 1 as her mother in law was having her children but then decided it was too much for her and she didnt warrant for childcare help so she could not support herself. Friend 2 droppped out about 3 weeks ago in year 2!!! I said she was mad but it was to do with the doctor at the trust she was working with. From the moment she started he kept telling her that she was useless, had gone into the wrong profession at 50, who did she think she was kidding, she would never qualify as she was rubbish at what she was doing (that is just a few words that were spoken to her!) She managed it for 2 years but it got her down and she ended up hating going to placements and just said enough was a enough. I found this very sad for her but she is ok just really annoyed at the doctor and upset at the uni for not helping her out more (not sure what they could have done but she did tell them numerous times about him) xx

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That is so very sad C22, I am afraid I would have said something to the doctor. That attitude is disgusting and very unprofessional, it isn't his place to say who is and isn't good or bad.

I really feel for your friend, what an awful thing to happen to her. I don't blame her for being angry, I would be too.

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She didnt want to say anything to the doctor incase it got her into trouble with the uni or trust. She is the sort of person that would not say boo to a goose and would rather just try and cope with it herself x

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We started as a group of 17.. Although actually it was 15 as 2 didn't turn up on the first day...
We went down to 9.. Some for personal reasons.. Some just didn't like it.. Some found it to stressful...
We are now back up to 11 though as we had 3 join from the year above

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We started I think as 52. 2 have gone to have babies, one for finances, one for stuff going on at home, one to move back to ireland, one because she wasn't there enough for her daughter, one that we don't really know what happened!

Think that's about it... Pretty sure now I'm going to be going - and it's for all the above mentioned reasons - final straw is some of the working experiences I've had!