Almost 15,000 undergraduate students dropped out of their studies in the UK over a two-month period, figures suggest.
Previous figures from the Student Loans Company (SLC) showed that 18,280 undergraduate students withdrew from their courses between the start of August 2022 and 21 February 2023.
Updated data shows that this number had increased to 32,623 withdrawals for 2022-23 by the end of May – 9 per cent more than by the same point in 2021-22, and the most since comparable figures began in 2018-19.
It also means that about 14,300 undergraduates withdrew over just two months – a quarter more than did so over the same time period last year.
