‘Isolated’ poorer students more likely to drop out, study shows

Survey finds that students from poorer backgrounds feel less well integratedLess affluent students in higher education are significantly more likely to experience problems with socialising and integrating than their peers from well-off families, says a major new study.Only 33% of the students from D and E socioeconomic groups said they were well integrated with the students they lived with, compared with 50% of students from A and B socioeconomic groups. Only 34% of the group said they had frien