Lietuvos studentų studijų ir darbo derinimas: problemos ir sprendimų galimybės /

The final bachelor thesis explores students' work and study reconciliation, which is a common and complex phenomenon that affects social well-being, economic development and social justice. Reconciling study, work and personal life leads to a variety of experiences that are important to explore in order to ensure a balance between these activities (Vokić et al., 2021). This final work aims is to analyse the problems of students' studies and paid work alignment and to present possible solutions for education and social policy. In order to achieve this aim the objectives of this finat work are: 1. Provide theoretical aspects on the interaction between the labour market and the education system; 2. Analysis of higher education policy in Lithuania; 3. Review the situation of student participation in the labour market in Lithuania and abroad; 4. To analyse students problems of reconciling work and study, and to make proposals for education and social policy. The empirical part of the thesis aimed to find out the reasons why Lithuanian students work and what problems they face. The aim of the study are to analyse what problems Lithuanian students face when combining work and studies and why they do so. The study objectives are: 1. Investigate the reasons why Lithuanian students work and the problems they face; 2. Investigate how work while studying affects personal study time, lectures and other activities attendance and discontinuation of studies; 3. Investigate whether students' work is linked to government support - grants, loans. In order to analyse the problems and reasons for students' work and study alignment it was chosen to do secondary data analysis using data from the 2022 EUROSTUDENT VIII wave survey. Study object: I and II levels of studies full-time Lithuanian students. The study revealed that in overall there are more working student in I and II levels of studies. And the most common reasons why students work are the need to cover living costs and the desire to buy things they could not normally afford. Working students face a lack of time for personal study and attendance at lectures and other activities, which they would like to spend more of. It also shows that working students perceive financial hardship as a major problem and are statistically significantly more likely to do so than non-working students. Working students are also more likely to discontinue studies. Students also often work in jobs unrelated to their studies. The study also found that students are more likely to choose not to work when they receive support (financial or non-financial) from their family or support from the state (e.g. a social grant) or an incentive grant. However, other financial support like grants or loans do not affect the choice to work.

Grantor dc:publisher

Institutional Repository of Vilnius University

Year dc:date

2024

Author dc:creator

• Kuzmenkovaitė, Lineta,

Statement dc:rights

• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Language dc:language

lit

Repository record dc:identifier

https://repository.vu.lt/VU:ELABAETD210644092&prefLang=en_US

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oai:vu.lt:elaba:210644092