The Parent Student

Will I earn enough to warrant years of struggle?

According to prospects.ac.uk the average graduate starting salary in the UK was £19,300 in 2007, with just under a third of graduates earning £22,000 to £24,000 and 7.9% earning more than £36,000. Even more note-worthy is the PricewaterhouseCoopers 2007 survey which found that UK graduates earn an average of £160,000 more than non-graduates over the [...]

Your children are more likely to get a degree too

According to a study in the journal Research in Higher Education in the US, “first-generation” students (ie those whose parents did not go to Uni) were 71% more likely to drop out in the first year than those with two graduate parents. In fact an international study (reviewed here) has found that parental education is [...]