University Students Engaged in Paid Employment
APA- 6th Edition
For various reasons, there has been an increase in employment in university students. One reason for this shift is a change in the demographics of university students. No longer are university students primarily composed of young adults who transition immediately from primary education to the university setting. Instead, many university students are non-traditional students. Many of them are older, have families, and have been actively involved in the workforce for significant periods of time prior to entering the university setting. Other students may enter universities at the traditional change, but face financial challenges requiring them to work to either support themselves or pay for the education, which reflects a cultural shift in both the willingness to subsidize education and the class requirements for higher education. For example, "reductions in financial support for higher education students have taken place in the UK since the 1980s" which has led to the abolishing of maintenance grants and substituting them with tuition and educational loans (Moreau & Leathwood, 2006). These types of changes are taking place worldwide, which is leading to a shift in the expectations for college students.
One thing that this shift has impacted is the number of students engaged in the workplace. Moreover, because of the greater number of students engaged in the workforce, one would expect to see changes in how this working environment impacts students. "Evidence from recent studies strongly suggest that there is likely to be an impact in each of these areas because the pattern of full-time students' engagement with higher education has changed over the past decade and especially in the last two or three years" (McMinnis & Hartley, 2002).
Generally, when one discusses how paid employment might impact a student's experience of the work environment, there are two hypothesized impacts. The first way that people believe paid employment will impact school is by impacting academic performance. The theory is that paid employment will interfere with students' ability to study and result in an overall decline in academic performance. However,...
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