The financial costs of #highereducation increasingly exact a #mentalhealth cost on #students...  

It is a sobering comparison that rather than having three years of intellectual development & mental growth, #university students seem more likely to sink into #depression... no-one would expect university not to be challenging, but this should be empowering not debilitating....

There is something very wrong with how we treat university & we urgently need to fix it!

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/sep/29/university-students-more-at-risk-of-depression-than-non-students-study 

 @43d7c4ea There is pressure now on huge numbers of students to aim for university, when many are not actually suited to an academic environment and would do better combining learning with work. We are forcing these young people into a narrow idea of what 'success' is, with the resulting fallout.