期刊名称：International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
电子版ISSN：2222-6990
出版年度：2020
卷号：10
期号：12
页码：350-362
DOI：10.6007/IJARBSS/v10-i12/8322
语种：English
出版社：Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
摘要：The paper presents parents’ views on how scholarships, grants and other financial assistance should be awarded to students to aid their schooling and results of a test of the vested interest and group identification models. The study was precipitated by the fact that more and more young people with academic potentials terminate their education prematurely due to financial encumbrances. The study was modeled along the quantitative paradigm. Stratified, systematic and simple random methods were respectively employed to select the communities, houses and subjects used for the study. Descriptive and inferential statistics were employed for the data analysis. Results demonstrate that generally parents are averse to giving financial assistance to students without recourse to their family financial standing. However, there were differences in the views of the elite and non-elite parents, and parents in urban and non-urban centres. Based on the results, it is concluded that the vested interest model explains the preference of the parents.
