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An investigation into the inter-relationship among work, family and part-time education in Hong Kong
- An investigation into the inter-relationship among work, family and part-time education in Hong Kong
- Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 53(4), 561-576, 2001
- Routledge
- 2001
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- Hong Kong
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- 1997.7 onwards
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- Post-Secondary Education
- Adult Education
- Part-time tertiary education at both undergraduate and graduate levels are becoming more and more popular. In pursuing part-time studies, students must use their own limited and valuable non-work hours at the cost of giving up other commitments to their family and social lives. Part-time study is considered to be a very effective indicator of employees' drive for personal development. A research was conducted in October 2000 to study the mechanism linking work, family and part-time tertiary education, with a review to clarifying the issue and recommending means to manage the conflict among roles in these three domains. About 500 postgraduate and undergraduate part-time university students (who had full-time jobs) in Hong Kong were surveyed. The results of the study suggest that the support of employers and families has a certain statistically significant relationship with the perceived job performance and satisfaction in family and work lives of employees pursuing part-time tertiary education. However, it was observed that academic performance of employees' part-time study actually had no statistically significant correlation with any of the independent and mediating variables that were analysed in the study. [Copyright of Journal of Vocational Education and Training is the property of Routledge. Full article may be available at the publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13636820100200177 ]
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- English
- Journal Articles
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- 13636820
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/98a2c0ec
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