Chinese Overseas Students and Part-Time Job
Assignment Title: students and part time work
By: Ke Ma
Intensive English Programme
Lecturers: Christopher Lowe, Lorraine Mighty, James Brown, Julia Clifford.
University College Birmingham
Words:1186 (without references)
This essay will consider the meaning of part time jobs and the behavior of students who are working while studying. Attention is directed to find the relationship between the career achievements relate to part time work and it’s impact on scholarly engagement and on student’s health and academic performance. By focusing on the back ground of part -time work, and the reaction of part-time student’s family and school, and correlates of the paid work intensity of adolescent students. The purpose of this essay is to discuss the disadvantages of students who doing part-time jobs and to examine the advantages of part time working, and to discuss what problems can be caused by part-time work.
There are reasons to believe that more and more students are now working part time during their study. According to a research by McNeish and John McColl（2005), there are 50% of undergraduate students has part-time job and a number of them work for 14 hours a week. By compare student’s health to their sex-and age-related norms for the general population, it can be defined that seven of the eight of hearth measured will significantly pooler than those of the general population. “Both the part time working and being in debt have a detrimental effect on both mental and physical health of students. Although, part time job is an integral area for most students’ life. Similar to the most literature on family, peer and school contexts, it note that little scholarly caused by paying employment by given to the outcomes of adolescent.”
“The experience of adolescent student part time work including tasks and responsibilities, rewards, workplaces relationships, and the meaning of these experiences, take fundamentally different forms in distinct historical, sociocultural,
By: Ke Ma
Intensive English Programme
Lecturers: Christopher Lowe, Lorraine Mighty, James Brown, Julia Clifford.
University College Birmingham
Words:1186 (without references)
This essay will consider the meaning of part time jobs and the behavior of students who are working while studying. Attention is directed to find the relationship between the career achievements relate to part time work and it’s impact on scholarly engagement and on student’s health and academic performance. By focusing on the back ground of part -time work, and the reaction of part-time student’s family and school, and correlates of the paid work intensity of adolescent students. The purpose of this essay is to discuss the disadvantages of students who doing part-time jobs and to examine the advantages of part time working, and to discuss what problems can be caused by part-time work.
There are reasons to believe that more and more students are now working part time during their study. According to a research by McNeish and John McColl（2005), there are 50% of undergraduate students has part-time job and a number of them work for 14 hours a week. By compare student’s health to their sex-and age-related norms for the general population, it can be defined that seven of the eight of hearth measured will significantly pooler than those of the general population. “Both the part time working and being in debt have a detrimental effect on both mental and physical health of students. Although, part time job is an integral area for most students’ life. Similar to the most literature on family, peer and school contexts, it note that little scholarly caused by paying employment by given to the outcomes of adolescent.”
“The experience of adolescent student part time work including tasks and responsibilities, rewards, workplaces relationships, and the meaning of these experiences, take fundamentally different forms in distinct historical, sociocultural,
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