25% of Architecture Students experience mental illness

Architecture Students experience mental health problems

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Study Finds 25% of UK Architecture Students Have Sought Treatment for Mental Health Issues

In a recent article I focused on women in architecture, but on the architecture course young men can equally suffer. Many have written to me. The problem is not a gender problem. The problem is that the only "teaching" that takes place is through criticism and students are kept in a perpetual state of anxiety because, no matter how hard they work, how clever and creative they are,  they do not know until the very last day of each year whether or not they will gain a 40% pass mark for their project work.

Shock results are dished out at the last minute as all the projects leading up to the final project each year are discarded - meaning students who gained good marks for their first two projects can in fact fail, and conversely, students who have failed their first two projects can gain a high mark. It all depends how much architecture tutors rate your final project and rate you.

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