Factors Affecting High School Students

Authors

  • Nancy Talavera Pascual University of Rizal System

Keywords:

career planning, course preference, school environment

Abstract

Unemployment rate in the country is commonly associated with the misfit graduates produced by universities and colleges and the workforce needed by different companies. The wrong choice of course taken by most of high school students adds to the unemployment and underemployment rate of newly graduate students.

Author Biography

Nancy Talavera Pascual, University of Rizal System

Director, Office of Student Development Services, University of Rizal System

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2014-05-21

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Pascual, N. T. (2014). Factors Affecting High School Students. International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (IJSBAR), 16(1), 1–14. Retrieved from https://gssrr.org/index.php/JournalOfBasicAndApplied/article/view/2261

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