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EFFECTS OF WORKING STUDENTS AND NON-WORKING STUDENTS TO THEIR ACADEMIC GRADES:
AS PERCEIVED BY financial management student

Chapter 1
Introduction

1.1 Background of the Study
In the present modern period, education gives us knowledge of the world around us. It develops in us a perspective of looking at life. It helps us build opinions and have points of view on things in life. Education is the process of gaining information about the surrounding world while knowledge is something very different and it makes us capable of interpreting things right.
Nowadays, every students need to finish their education so they will get a better future but unfortunately some students has no capability to enrol in a good university or institution. Other students try to finance their money by having a part time work to pay for college.
Non-working students defined as a person who takes more than 12 credit hours, or the equivalent, at a post-secondary institution in a school term. We can consider that full time student is students who focus in his academics and don’t have a part time work.

Working student defined as an individual who is studying but working part time at the same time. Working students have to work harder to compensate their working time with their studies.

It has been established by academics in a variety of disciplines that the proportion of college students who work while school is in session has been steadily increasing since the 1960s (Henke, Lyons and Krachenberg, 1993; Stern and Nakata, 1991). So it merely implies that until now there are a lot of College student who work just to finance their college education.
According to Riggert et al. (2006) "Student employment is no longer an isolated phenomenon; it is an educational fact of life." One purpose of this study is to know the effect of employment upon working