Report on Education Problems, Arseniy Fedosiuk, Group A2

Main types of services and employment for a full-time student

Survey comments

Introduction: On the 30th March 2013, a survey was conducted among 20 students of the Faculty of Humanities and Faculty of Social Sciences and Social Technologies at the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”. The purpose of the survey was to discover students’ attitudes to possibilities of employment during study.

The survey was conducted by means of a questionnaire given to the students to complete. The survey consisted of 8 questions – 4 were straight-choice questions, 2 – multiple choice, and one open question. The first question was aimed to find out how many respondents have the experience of working during the full-time study. Second one was related to the possibility of combining work and study. Third and fourth questions concerned the reasons which lead students to work and the time they spent (or are willing to spend) for it. 6 and 7 question were to discover the relation between student’s work and field of study and scope of employment. The last question asked to identify the main problems student faced (or may face) while combining work and study; and it was open.

Comment: The main findings were as follows. 80% of all respondents worked during the study, 15% don’t have such experience, and 5% are only planning to. Half of the students support the thesis that work may interfere with normal student activity, 30% support such thesis partially and 20% deny it. Considering the main reasons, the most popular one are financial issues and gaining work experience. Survey showed that half of the students are willing to spend 3-4 hours for work daily, while choices with 1-2 hours and 5 hours or more gained 25% each.  Also it was found that in half of cases the work was related to student’s field of study. At the same time 10 students of 20 worked as low-skilled labor, 7 choose freelance and only 2 – unskilled labor. Analysis of answers for the last question can show a strong tendency of determination the lack of time as the main problem for students that are trying to combine work and full-time study.