A study on personal career growth and postgraduate enrollment with scholarship award as the moderating effect: experiences in Universiti Sains Malaysia
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2010
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Rahim, Norizan Baba
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This research study was mainly focus on the relationship between academic achievement, financial capacity and working experience with postgraduate enrollment and scholarship awards provided by Institute of Graduate Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia as the
moderating effect. It is about to examine which dimension of the personal career growth has the highest weightage towards the postgraduate enrollment and does the scholarship award
give any significant as the moderating effect. The current practice of eligibility to entitle for scholarships is much dependent upon on academic performance and mode of studies by research. Academic achievement has become the first dimension for the postgraduate
enrollment in USM followed by working experience dimension as secondary factor, where else IPS does not look at financial capacity dimension.
For the purposes of this study it is important for IPS to plan and give an equal weightage requirement to both academic achievement and working experience dimensions for postgraduate enrollment, where students do not have sufficient financial capacity, a scholarship
awards should be considered. Currently IPS-USM is only prioritizing on academic
achievement dimension followed by working experience dimension as secondary factor for postgraduate enrollment, where else IPS does not look at financial capacity dimension.
Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate whether academic achievement, working experience and financial capacity has a positive significant influence on the postgraduate enrollment. In addition to that, scholarship award is used as a moderating effect in this relationship.
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Business Administration