I'm not going to disagree. "Universities tend to treat dropping out, failing, or disengaging as if it directly reveals what students are like (motivation, ability, resilience), rather than seeing these behaviours as products of their circumstances and the institutional environment." This is an example of correspondence bias, "a candidate for the most robust and repeatable finding in social psychology" and more properly known as Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE), explains Colin Beer. He recommends a telling paper (51 page PDF): "Factors that contribute to completion rates for RUN students are nuanced, complex and multifaceted. The issues facing RUN cohorts and regional universities will not be addressed by adopting narratives that attribute blame to either students or institutions."
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