More than one-fifth of all college students are student parents, according to estimates by the National Center for Education Statistics. That's nearly 4 million college students with children. This episode highlights student parents' challenges as they try to balance family life and school work. Student parents have to balance school and family needs with work without access to family support, affordable child care, or flexible school or work schedules. 1 in 5 students are student parents; you've probably studied with student parents at certain points during your academic life.
In this episode, we are joined by Nafisat-Gyimah, PhD student from the Thomas Johann Seebeck Department of Electronics at Tallinn University of Technology and Seth Amofah, Doctoral Candidate in Sociology from the School of Governance, Law and Society at Tallinn University who are student parents to share the challenges, tips and tricks to balancing school work with family life. How can you support student parents to achieve their educational goals?
This episode was hosted by Omolade Olorundare. Special thanks to Mercy Ugochi Onwuzulike for recording the sessions and Alia Hajiyeva for editing.
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