PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT

To Explore the Impact of Part-Time Employment on Student's Wellbeing and Adjustment



To explore the impact of part-time employment on student's wellbeing and adjustment

Literature Review

Part-time it-self is a stable employment relationship, not precarious that allows flexibility to meet the needs of companies on one hand and to have shorter hours, and reconcile your needs. The employment contract is always a part-time employment contract for a fixed period or indefinitely.

Paid employment to current full-time students

Paid work full-time students have become a reality. Acknowledging this situation, various stakeholders in education and socio-economic world wanted to know more about this phenomenon to better support students in their success. As part of the Regional Workshop-business-school environment to student retention, the issue of paid work full-time students was selected as one of three intervention targets for a partnership between the education community and socio-economic world. In favour of such a context, the Regional Council for the prevention of school failure has conducted a literature search on the subject, as well as three case studies from high school students, college and the university.

Many young people who have involved in paid work succeed in school. It is not important that the education levels of the students who are employed are not necessarily lower than those of students without a job. According to the researchers', relationship between working during school and academic achievement are ambiguous when it enters the model of other variables such as the ability to learn, school failure, self-esteem academic motivation and school grades. Therefore, too much emphasis on paid work during the school year could also be a symptom in the student a problematic relationship to education (Desforges, Abouchaar, 2003, pp. 1).

Although this is a complex reality that remains to be documented, (we do not have a wide knowledge or practical or theoretical in this reality), paid work for students during the school year is still right even a risk factor control interventions.

There is an increased risk of having problems in school or drop out of school for students in employment when.

Employment prevents them from devoting the time to school work;

They are absent from their classes because of their employment

They perceive that their work affects their studies;

They do not have the energy to do their school work after returning from their work;

Their scores are low and lack of motivation towards their schoolwork;

The intensity of paid work increases when they are in review period or end of session or example, in December;

They prolong their studies to combine study and paid work.

A preventive approach, rather than coercive, appears in this context the way to go, especially since students paid work also has positive impacts, particularly in regard to the development of autonomy and competence. This preventive approach has the advantage of adapting to the realities of educational levels and to involve different actors challenged by this phenomenon. As suggestive here of courses of action that could be an implementation:

Promote the school as a living ...