"While we are still seeing lots of interest and motivation among students, some students are turned off by the partisanship displayed in Congress".
Dr. Karen E. Hauer of the University of California, San Francisco, who directed the study of medical students, said in an interview that students were "turned off by the hassles in the practice environment — the paperwork, insurance issues, pace of work and expectations to get the work done quickly without having adequate time to spend with patients".
Nottingham SU has conducted debates on such pressing issues as "should bottled water be banned from the union shop?" and "should we lobby the university for transexual toilets?" No wonder students are turned off – these issues simply aren't representative of the average student's concerns.
A bad textbook is "one of the reasons that students get turned off by science," says physicist John Hubisz of North Carolina State University in Raleigh, who headed the study.
Most students are turned off by the idea of becoming nothing at death, and I show them the various types of evidence suggesting this won't happen.
Like Blair, Falconer took little part in student politics, turned off by the internecine feuding of left-wing sects.
The venue's general vibe, buttressed by a lurid colour scheme and shiny exterior graffiti, screamed out an immense debt to queasily appropriated street culture and the unspoken, perhaps unspeakable, aim of luring the slightly-left, but not too left of centre student clientele turned off by shag-tag Thursdays at Liquid Envy but insufficiently woke for the Reading Rooms.
The first includes students who are turned off by the postmodernist, post-structuralist view of art history that she believes they are being force-fed in school.
None of the cuts have been implemented yet, but potential students are being turned off the idea of a university that hit the headlines at Easter with the news that it is culling 70% of its courses.
Without top-notch residential facilities, or at least very livable modern housing units, schools think students will be turned off.
