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dc.contributor.authorBartram, Brendan
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-17T13:28:28Z
dc.date.available2016-10-17T13:28:28Z
dc.date.issued2016-05-16
dc.identifier.citationBartram, B. (2016). "Career and Money Aside, What's the Point of University?" A Comparison of Students' Non-Economic Entry Motives in Three European Countries. Higher Education Quarterly, 70 (3), pp 281-300. doi: 10.1111/hequ.12098
dc.identifier.issn0951-5224
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/hequ.12098
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2436/620211
dc.description.abstracthis paper explores students’ non-economic motives for attending university. Drawing on the results of a tri-national survey involving online questionnaires and email interviews with education students at English, German and Portuguese universities, it compares and discusses the extent to which the participants are motivated by a number of extrinsic and intrinsic factors. In contrast to certain other studies, the findings reveal a strong consensus across all three settings in relation to certain motivational elements—strong intrinsic desires for self-improvement and low motivations driven by social pressures or seeing university as a default option. More pronounced national differences emerge, however, regarding motives to contribute to society and the appeal of the social dimension of university life. The paper interprets the similarities and differences revealed and considers a number of conclusions.
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dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWiley
dc.relation.urlhttp://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/hequ.12098
dc.title‘Career and Money Aside, What's the Point of University?’ A Comparison of Students’ Non-economic Entry Motives in Three European Countries
dc.typeJournal article
dc.identifier.journalHigher Education Quarterly
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of Wolverhampton
dc.date.accepted2016-03-17
rioxxterms.funderUniversity of Wolverhampton
rioxxterms.identifier.projectUOW171016BB
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rioxxterms.licenseref.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2018-05-16
dc.source.volume70
dc.source.issue3
dc.source.beginpage281
dc.source.endpage300
refterms.dateFCD2018-10-19T09:01:27Z
refterms.versionFCDAM
refterms.dateFOA2018-05-16T00:00:00Z
html.description.abstracthis paper explores students’ non-economic motives for attending university. Drawing on the results of a tri-national survey involving online questionnaires and email interviews with education students at English, German and Portuguese universities, it compares and discusses the extent to which the participants are motivated by a number of extrinsic and intrinsic factors. In contrast to certain other studies, the findings reveal a strong consensus across all three settings in relation to certain motivational elements—strong intrinsic desires for self-improvement and low motivations driven by social pressures or seeing university as a default option. More pronounced national differences emerge, however, regarding motives to contribute to society and the appeal of the social dimension of university life. The paper interprets the similarities and differences revealed and considers a number of conclusions.


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