Conference sessions in Student support
Does nudging higher education students improve attendance? A quasi-natural experiment
Presentation at DEE 2023,Becoming the confident learner: insights from an exploratory quantitative analysis of in-module data
Presentation at DEE 2023,Economics students’ perception of academic challenge and its relationship to student wellbeing
Presentation at DEE 2023,Information Interventions to Counter Procrastination
Presentation at DEE 2023,Financial literacy and behavioural biases among university students
Presentation at DEE 2019,Financial literacy and behavioural biases are crucial factors, which may affect individuals’ financial decisions and behaviour. University students who make financial decisions at this stage of their lives can feel impact of these decisions throughout their lives. Thus, university students’ financial wellbeing is shaped by these two factors. This paper investigates the relationship between financial literacy level and behavioural biases among university students. Target population was selected from University of West of England – Bristol (UWE). Data will be collected via survey method. Financial knowledge, financial attitude and financial behaviour are used in order to measure financial literacy level among university students. Financial literacy is used as dependent variable for the research. The level of behavioural biases will be used as independent variables based on a five-point Likert type scale. The relationship between financial literacy and behavioural biases will be analysed via regression analysis. The result of the research will show to what extent university students with the low level of financial literacy are exposed to behavioural biases, and which factors most affect financial literacy of university students. At the same time, it will also show how can university students prevent behavioural biases in order to avoid wrong financial decisions.
Understanding, supporting and teaching Generation Z
Presentation at DEE 2019,What characterises Generation Z is vastly different from what shapes Generations X and Y and miles away from what shapes baby boomers. What happens then, when Generation Z is being taught by Millennials, Generation X or even baby boomers? Traditional ways of teaching economics are becoming more and more challenging to sustain in a generation that has experiential and intrapersonal learning preferences, that has great expectations and that most of their social life takes place online. A great challenge for academics and for faculty is to understand what is different about them and adjust teaching but also pastoral care appropriately. Embracing personal devices, personalising their learning and ‘meeting’ online, are some of the methods we could use to improve our communication with this generation not only to support them but also to clarify the expectations with which they enter University life.
Support services provided by universities - case study: career counselling at Bucharest University of Economic Studies
Presentation at DEE 2019,Nowadays, the issue of integrating graduates into the labour market is a subject of great concern to universities and employers too. Universities should prepare professionals. That means that university programs should focused not only on knowledge but on developing professional competences to students too. These competences together with so called transversal or ‘soft’ ones will help them to find a job at graduation time, stay employed and be flexible and adaptable in order to develop and fulfil personally and professionally. From this point of view, universities together with employers have to provide students not with educational services only, but with career counselling services too. Counselling services will help them to properly manage their own potential and choose an educational and professional path. The paper is focused on support services for integration into the labour market provided by The Bucharest University of Economic Studies to students and students and employers perception on these services. It represents a synthesis of different research conducted recently on theoretical resources, on students enrolled at The Bucharest University of Economic Studies and partner-employers of the university. At the end of the paper some recommendations are provided as consequences of the conclusions of research.
