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Peer reviewedVergidis, Dimitris; Panagiotakopoulos, Chris – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2002
Of the 173 postgraduate adult students who abandoned their studies at Hellenic Open University, 108 were interviewed. Primary reasons for dropping out included difficulty balancing academic workload with employment and family obligations (mainly for female students), miscalculation of time available for studying, and underestimation of the effort…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Dropout Research, Foreign Countries, Graduate Study
