One in five students who participated in the latest GRB poll admitted that they chose to go to university simply because they love to learn!The overwhelming majority of respondents (63%) not surprisingly stated that the main reason they enrolled for a degree course was to put themselves in a better position for employment.
Of the rest, a brave 12% admitted that the pull was the social life attached to being an undergraduate while 3% confessed that they went because all their friends did and clearly they were unhappy at the thought of being left behind while an equal number were honest enough to admit that they had no idea why they went to university!
Responding to the results, Dan Hawes, GRB Co-Founder, said, "This latest opinion poll is highly topical with a general election just around the corner. Higher education is going to be an election battlefield and when the debate turns to the purpose of higher education our survey reveals that the students themselves want their investment in HE to improve their job prospects. It is encouraging to find that there are other motivating factors especially the love of learning but we can only hope that those few who didn't know why they were there can still gain some benefit from the experience."
