Labour market consideration as course selection criteria in a Malaysian university

This paper aims to identify factors that are considered by the first year undergraduate students from Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), University of Malaya in course selection process in two different stages namely pre-entry and post-entry. Findings from this study reveals that in pre-ent...

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Main Authors:	Subramaniam, T., Idris, H., Mohd Ariff, M.R.
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Published:	2011
Subjects:	H Social Sciences (General)
Online Access:	http://eprints.um.edu.my/12906/ http://eprints.um.edu.my/12906/1/EDC237.pdf

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spelling	um-129062015-03-03T00:54:39Z Labour market consideration as course selection criteria in a Malaysian university Subramaniam, T. Idris, H. Mohd Ariff, M.R. H Social Sciences (General) This paper aims to identify factors that are considered by the first year undergraduate students from Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), University of Malaya in course selection process in two different stages namely pre-entry and post-entry. Findings from this study reveals that in pre-entry selection criteria, ‘teacher’ and ‘family’ factors appears to be more important. ‘Labour market consideration’ only appears to be the third important factor in this stage. These three factors collectively explains approximately 54 percent of the variation in pre-entry selection criteria. In postentry selection criteria, ‘peers influence’ , ‘orientation week’ and ‘limited choices’ factors emerged as important dimensions. These three factors in turn collectively explains approximately 49 percent of the variation in post-entry selection criteria. ‘Labour market consideration’ emerges only as the second last important factor in post-entry selection criteria. 2011-11 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf http://eprints.um.edu.my/12906/1/EDC237.pdf Subramaniam, T.; Idris, H.; Mohd Ariff, M.R. (2011) Labour market consideration as course selection criteria in a Malaysian university. In: International Conference on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 2011, 21-23 Nov 2011, Malacca. http://eprints.um.edu.my/12906/
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spellingShingle	H Social Sciences (General) Subramaniam, T. Idris, H. Mohd Ariff, M.R. Labour market consideration as course selection criteria in a Malaysian university
description	This paper aims to identify factors that are considered by the first year undergraduate students from Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), University of Malaya in course selection process in two different stages namely pre-entry and post-entry. Findings from this study reveals that in pre-entry selection criteria, ‘teacher’ and ‘family’ factors appears to be more important. ‘Labour market consideration’ only appears to be the third important factor in this stage. These three factors collectively explains approximately 54 percent of the variation in pre-entry selection criteria. In postentry selection criteria, ‘peers influence’ , ‘orientation week’ and ‘limited choices’ factors emerged as important dimensions. These three factors in turn collectively explains approximately 49 percent of the variation in post-entry selection criteria. ‘Labour market consideration’ emerges only as the second last important factor in post-entry selection criteria.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Subramaniam, T. Idris, H. Mohd Ariff, M.R.
author_facet	Subramaniam, T. Idris, H. Mohd Ariff, M.R.
author_sort	Subramaniam, T.
title	Labour market consideration as course selection criteria in a Malaysian university
title_short	Labour market consideration as course selection criteria in a Malaysian university
title_full	Labour market consideration as course selection criteria in a Malaysian university
title_fullStr	Labour market consideration as course selection criteria in a Malaysian university
title_full_unstemmed	Labour market consideration as course selection criteria in a Malaysian university
title_sort	labour market consideration as course selection criteria in a malaysian university
publishDate	2011
url	http://eprints.um.edu.my/12906/ http://eprints.um.edu.my/12906/1/EDC237.pdf
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Labour market consideration as course selection criteria in a Malaysian university

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