new study, which calls for universities to provide more support to cut
the number that drop out.
Based on a literature review of research from 2000 onwards and interviews with a sample of women with children, the study highlights the struggle mothers face, particularly single mothers, in juggling childcare and studying, as well as paid work in many cases.
It reveals a mixed picture of the level of support provided by higher education institutions, and calls for more to be done to help mothers enrolled on courses.
Dr Clare Lyonette, principal research fellow at the University of Warwick's Institute for Employment Research, who led the study, said, 'Having been a student mother in the 1990s, I recognised, in the accounts of these mothers, the amazing struggle it can sometimes be. There is no slack at all.
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