Labor & Employment Law

Work is not good for continuing education

By Michael Fitzgibbon

A study to be released shortly by the Canadian Millennium Scholarship Foundation and discussed in Work increases risk of dropping out warns that:

..... balancing higher education and work is a tricky business, with every extra hour students spend on the job each week reducing the likelihood that they will finish their degree.

And further:

"The main message here is that working and going to school is not a good thing," said Anne Motte, one of the study's authors and a researcher with the Millennium Foundation. That finding, Ms. Motte said, is contrary to popular wisdom, which has generally been that working part time is good for students, as long as the hours aren't excessive.

With mounting student debt, the message from this study is troubling particularly given the number of college and university students that have no choice but to hold down a job while going to school. 

Full post as published by Thoughts from a Management Lawyer on April 16, 2009 (boomark / email).