Skip to content
Solutions

Solutions

Find out more about how Ready Education's solutions can benefit your institution.

Solutions

Find out more about how Ready Education's solutions can benefit your institution.
Strengthen Student Engagement
Support Student and Academic Success
Streamline Communications
Centralise Resources
Success Stories
Resources
About

About

Learn more about Ready Education and our leadership team

About

Learn more about Ready Education and our leadership team
Careers
Take the next step in your career with Ready Education
Get in Touch

PRESSURE, ISOLATION, MISCOMMUNICATION...
DROP OUT.

Learn how to support and re-engage students.

More students across Europe are now living below the poverty line than ever before. What are the numbers telling us about the challenges students are facing in Europe? Let’s analyse the student crisis together.

Student Crisis

How can we support and re-engage students?

Students face many difficulties during their student journey. Poverty, mental health, disengagement, dropout…
What can institutions do to overcome the student crisis? Did you know that up to 80% of young people are now more likely to report symptoms of depression or anxiety? And that’s not the only worrying figure, as you can see from the infographic and stats below.

Mental Health Decline

Mental Health Decline

Universities are experiencing a surge in student anxiety, mental breakdowns and depression.
  

Rising Social Isolation

Rising Social Isolation

There is an increasing trend of 18-25 year olds reporting feeling lonely.

Miscommunication

Miscommunication

Communications are poor in higher education institutions. Students are feeling betrayed and institutions are failing to meet expectations.

Increasing Financial Struggles

Increasing Financial Struggles

Across Europe, more students than ever before are now living below the poverty line.

Increasing Academic Pressure 850x850

Increasing Academic Pressure

Increasing numbers of students are reporting feeling stressed about their course or reporting difficulties in their education. 

Student Housing Crisis 850x850

Student Housing Crisis

New build stalls, housing and room shortages are leaving some students homeless.

ON-DEMAND WEBINAR 

Addressing the student crisis with a student engagement platform

The University of Birmingham has achieved increased engagement and personalised student support via their University mobile app provided by Ready Education.

Watch the recorded webinar we hosted with them and learn how streamlining communications with students and maintaining proactive engagement via digital tools they are familiar with can help them feel supported by their institution during difficult times.

UCISA logo

Avoid Drop Outs

All of these points lead to students dropping our of their studies. An average of 9.6% of 18-24 year-old in the EU are early leavers from education and training. Leaving education early can have significant consequences for the individual, as well as for society, in the long term.

To overcome this student crisis, institutions should adopt a holistic approach of student well-being and experience:

 
INFOGRAPHIC DOWNLOAD

STUDENT CRISIS IN EUROPE:

THE KEY FIGURES

Today, higher education students are facing a myriad of challenges affecting their mental well-being, living situations, engagement levels and academic performance. Did you know that up to 80% of young people are now more likely to report symptoms of depression or anxiety? And that’s not the only worrying figure, as you can see from the infographic.

Student Crisis
STUDENT CRISIS

Enhancing Student Support and Community

  • Easy access to all the resources students need to succeed in order to reduce their stress levels

  • Help students connect with their peers to encourage community building and sense of belonging (events, digital community, campus activities…)

Student Crisis
STUDENT CRISIS

Addressing Financial Support and Mental Health

  • Guide students through the process of getting financial support (sort out paperwork, administrative tasks…)

  • Implement initiatives to face mental health challenges: provide mental health services, organise awareness workshops, conduct surveys to take the students’ pulse, give them access to resources and people that can help…