Do Higher Education Students Really Seek 'Value for Money'?: Debunking the Myth

Autor/in	Quinlan, Kathleen M.
Titel	Do Higher Education Students Really Seek 'Value for Money'?: Debunking the Myth
Quelle	In: London Review of Education, 19 (2021) 1, (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Quinlan, Kathleen M.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1474-8479
Schlagwörter	Undergraduate Students; College Choice; Student Satisfaction; College Freshmen; Foreign Countries; Aspiration; Cost Effectiveness; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Studienortwahl; Studienanfänger; Ausland; Streben; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; Kosten-Nutzen-Denken; Großbritannien
Abstract	Although students are increasingly cast as consumers wanting 'value for money', this study empirically investigated whether students actively seek value for money. In Study 1, 1,772 undergraduates at a mid-ranked English university were asked open-ended questions about what they had wanted from their university learning experience and how that had turned out. Hopes were coded as fulfilled or unfulfilled. Responses were searched for key words related to 'value for money'. Less than 2 per cent of students referenced 'value for money'. Those students were significantly more likely to have unfulfilled hopes. In Study 2, 185 first-year science students were asked open-ended questions about why they chose their subject and their programme, and what they had wanted from their learning experience in that programme. None referenced value for money. Students' reasons for choosing their subjects and programmes were analysed. 'Value for money' does not do justice to students' hopes for university or their programme. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01