Time Management
TIME MANAGEMENT AMONG STUDENTS IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
For many college students, one of the biggest differences between senior high school and the tertiary is the need to effectively manage your own time. The leap from senior high school system to that of the tertiary is viewed as very significant and also comes with certain liberties. If you began learning time management skills in senior high school, you have a definite advantage over many college students. Therefore the need to practice effective and efficient time management is very essential.
According to Stephen R. Covey (1994) Time management is the act or process of exercising conscious control over the amount of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase efficiency or productivity. Time management may be aided by a range of skills, tools, and techniques used to manage time when accomplishing specific tasks, projects and goals. This set encompasses a wide scope of activities, and these include planning, allocating, setting goals, delegation, analysis of time spent, monitoring, organizing, scheduling, and prioritizing.
He further asserts that a time management system is a designed combination of processes, tools, techniques, and methods and that usually time management is a necessity in any project development (or activity) as it determines the project completion time and scope.
In the tertiary system of education, the atmosphere is relaxed as compared to that of the senior high school system. They may be engaged in a lot of out of school activities and also must learn to balance their time between attending lectures, time for friends and family and also personal stuff that they need to do themselves. With all these going on in the tertiary environment it is possible for students to mismanage their times and as such this mismanagement of their time might go
For many college students, one of the biggest differences between senior high school and the tertiary is the need to effectively manage your own time. The leap from senior high school system to that of the tertiary is viewed as very significant and also comes with certain liberties. If you began learning time management skills in senior high school, you have a definite advantage over many college students. Therefore the need to practice effective and efficient time management is very essential.
According to Stephen R. Covey (1994) Time management is the act or process of exercising conscious control over the amount of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase efficiency or productivity. Time management may be aided by a range of skills, tools, and techniques used to manage time when accomplishing specific tasks, projects and goals. This set encompasses a wide scope of activities, and these include planning, allocating, setting goals, delegation, analysis of time spent, monitoring, organizing, scheduling, and prioritizing.
He further asserts that a time management system is a designed combination of processes, tools, techniques, and methods and that usually time management is a necessity in any project development (or activity) as it determines the project completion time and scope.
In the tertiary system of education, the atmosphere is relaxed as compared to that of the senior high school system. They may be engaged in a lot of out of school activities and also must learn to balance their time between attending lectures, time for friends and family and also personal stuff that they need to do themselves. With all these going on in the tertiary environment it is possible for students to mismanage their times and as such this mismanagement of their time might go