Meet the Parents, a study carried out by the National Union of Students and launched at the House of Commons today (30 April), found that only 8 per cent of student parents who needed their college or university to provide childcare felt it fully met their requirements.
The report said that students and advisors 'generally felt that, when it did exist, college or university-based provision was oversubscribed and there were often very long waiting lists'.
The study found that some students had even dropped out of their course for a year to wait for their child to get to the top of the waiting list before enrolling again.
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