On this page we will discuss two main reasons why young people find the transition between school and university challenging. It has been well established that the transition from school to university is experienced by most learners as rather challenging. One may ask, what makes this transition anything byt seamless? The answer lies on singling out the main root causes of challenges.
Two reasons why young people find the transition between school and university challenging
The identified challenges include the following:
- Universities standards are higher than high school standards. Apart from that, there is too much workload, yet little assistence (as compared to high school) at a university level. Do you want to know why? Well because students are expected to conduct and take responsibility of their own learning autonomously.
- Loneliness and homesickness is another challenge. Going to a university for most students means, exiting the nest. At a university it is mostly common that you will be leaving by your self far away from your folks. Therefore, you are mostly posed with a significant and daughting challenge of making new friends and acquaintances