'If this happened last year, I would have quit. It's just too much, but I'm nearly done so I'm just pushing through the best I can.'
If 2020 hadn't been Rose Quirante Uayan's final year of university, she might not have stuck it out.
"The interaction is not there. I'm an outgoing person so I love the workshops and love to interact with my uni friends and work with them," she said."We've heard some people are dropping classes." Jane Hatwell is a mature-age social science student at Swinburne who was already studying remotely before the pandemic. She said while she personally was coping with the upheaval, she felt for younger and first-year students.
Census day for semester two, a key date on the university calendar whereby a student can withdraw from a course or subject without paying fees, takes place at the end of August and early September for Victorian students. With the, the pressure is on universities to retain enrolments.
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