Mental Health and Student Wastage

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Abstract
This report is published with the blessing of the College authorities, although they would challenge one or two elements in it. The main points of contention would be, first, the definition of wastage (it is understood that some of the students who are classified in the report as “wasted” did in fact go on to degree courses in other subjects elsewhere, having realized that they had chosen the wrong subject at first); second, that to quote a single year's figures may be misleading, since there are reasons for thinking that the picture may be changing for the better; and third, that academic inadequacy and idleness are thought to be at least as prevalent, as reasons for failure, as psychological disturbance, whereas this investigation concentrates almost exclusively on the latter.

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