The University has many resources in place to assist students with the transition process including academic and welfare services. Students are encouraged to seek help early to enhance their academic progress. You may expect the student to become increasingly independent, needing or wanting less direction from parents in all sorts of areas. Students will examine their attitudes to learning and to large social and political issues. Parents also need to make an adjustment.
Parental advice is valued but asked for less often.
Parents are generally pleased with the increasing maturity and responsibility the students show and the new skills and talents they see emerge. This will depend on the degree they are studying. Generally, science-based subjects have more contact hours than arts or humanities subjects, which require more independent learning. The University offers a number of exchange opportunities in a wide range of countries to students in most degrees. Sydney University has a comprehensive careers service that offers confidential careers counseling, job skills seminars and employer interview programs.