Bal Gill, youth and community work tutor at Ruskin College Oxford, is lamenting the loss of another three students from his degree course. He explains that they switched this year to take a social work degree at the college which, unlike youth work degrees, includes a student bursary.
These latest departures come after four students quit the BA (Hons) youth and community work degree last year, also due to money worries. "Some are coming back but funding has been a real issue for them and many other students in youth work," says Gill.
Funding from local authorities to cover youth work students' costs have also dried up in recent years, leading lecturers such as Gill to assert that youth work remains the poor relation to other disciplines such as teaching and social work.
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