What motivates an ever increasing number of students to enroll in part-time taught postgraduate awards?

What motivates an ever increasing number of students to enroll in part-time taught postgraduate awards?

• Ho, Amaly Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, University of Hong Kong
• Kember, David Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, University of Hong Kong
• Hong, Celina Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, University of Hong Kong

Studies in Continuing Education, 34(3), 319-338, 2012

Routledge

2012

• N 學生與學生服務
  • NI 補習社，補習班
• N 學生與學生服務
  • NF 學生經濟
• B 人的行為
  • BB 興趣、態度與價值觀
• Q 教育體系與各級學校
  • QE 專上教育
• N 學生與學生服務
  • NM 學生生活與閒暇活動、暑期活動、同儕群

Higher Education Motivation Continuing Education Professional Development Graduate Studies Graduate Students Social Networks

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• 專上教育

There has been a substantial rise in the number of students enrolling in part-time taught postgraduate awards. This study investigates the reasons or motivation for students to spend significant amounts on tutorial fees and find time alongside work, family and social commitments to take a taught postgraduate award. Data were gathered through interviews with 21 part-time students in taught postgraduate programmes in Hong Kong. Students all held several motives for studying, so the outcome was a framework for explaining multiple interacting motives. Main categories of motivation were related to qualifications, current career, potential future career, interest, perpetual students and professional and social networks. Individual students displayed varying degrees of these motivations and the sub-categories of them. Students were able to specify their needs in terms of advanced specialised study, so enrolment satisfied a need for continuing professional development. The rise in taught postgraduate enrolments, in search of advanced specialised knowledge, seems set to continue as undergraduate degrees become broader and more attribute-oriented and the knowledge explosion makes it harder to reach the frontiers of knowledge.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0158037X.2011.646979]

• 英文

期刊論文

• 0158037X

• 10.1080/0158037X.2011.646979

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/tc/bibs/7377a55b

2014-01-18