Higher Education

Many people desire to acquire higher education at the Barbados Community College. In doing so there could be many challenges that accompany this. Students, whether part-time or full-time, are affected by the issues they encounter. Some of these challenges can be solved by adopting the following guidelines listed below.

One of the major challenges students are faced with, especially part-time students, is financial difficulties. Tuition costs for part-time students are far greater compared to the tuition cost of full-time students. For example, A three-year associate degree for a local student, full-time, costs six hundred and thirty dollars while a three-year associate degree for a local student, part-time, costs five thousand dollars. As a result of these high prices, some students were forced to withdraw from programs. In addition, students have to purchase books and or materials which varies between one to four hundred dollars. Furthermore, students spend an average of forty dollars, or more, a week in bus fare or gas to attend college in order to satisfy an eighty percent class attendance - to qualify to sit final examinations. To resolve this issue, students can get a part-time job and budget his or her money properly. Getting a job will enable students to have money to purchase books, pay tuition and pay bus fare and budgeting will safeguard students against overspending.

Another hardship faced by many students is time management. Time management is prioritizing the amount of time spent on specific activities to increase productivity. Majority of the course work done at college is completed outside of the classroom. This course work involves researching projects, writing assignments and tests. Students not only find it difficult to balance this workload against his or her social life but also to keep focus. Whether part-time or full-time, students are easily distracted by both essential and non-essential activities: working, doing laundry, looking