Motives that Turn Adults at School Again

Abstract

The rapid development and the increased competition in the labour market makecontinuing education a necessity for an increasing number of people. Thus, in our society,the number of adults that are going back to school is growing every day. But, which are themost important motives that push adults to return back in the school?The main aim of this paper is to present some of these motives and to analysethe importance of them. For the methodology of this paper there are used only thequantitative methods. The sample is adult students that are frequenting part-time studyin some Albanian Universities. To select the sample from the whole population it is usedthe stage sampling. For data gathering there are used interviews, where the respondentsanswered questions about the motivation factors that return them again in school. Theanalysis of data has been carried out according to normal statistical methods.In closure, via analysing the data, the most important motives that return adults insome Albanian Universities are, keeping their actual job, getting a new job, being promotedor getting a recognised qualification. Some other motives are, performing the work betteror developing their self as a person.