Survey of Technical College Distant Students 1988

Company conditions, courses of individual education and occupation,
motivation for studies, territorial and social structural influences
as well as personal situation.
Topics: Subject area; technical college; start of studies; actual and
desired path of education; concluding grade of 10th grade and of high
school graduation; time interval between 10th grade or high school
graduation and start of distance education; technical college degree
in another field of specialization; vocational certificate as skilled
worker; activity in training occupation; concluding grade of skilled
worker; premature termination of training; agreement of occupation
learned and activity exercised; years in occupation; occupational
preparation as prerequisite for studies; earlier application for
admission to college; reasons for taking up studies, for selection of
subject area and distance education; decision for previous course;
changed conditions for economics and engineering studies;
attractivity of future college distant studies; sources of
information and extent to which informed about studies; being up to
the demands of studies; persons who influenced taking up studies;
preparation for studies; support by the company during studies;
delegation by the company; time expended for studying on one's own;
obtaining literature for studies; use of company library; goals in
life sought and achieved such as scientific activity, management
function, socially useful work, highly paid position, reputation
among colleagues, family, more than two children, prosperity,
education and culture; necessary and pronounced character traits for
future studies; assessment of higher education by society, work
collective and family; expectations of future college occupation;
work area of current and future activity; company; shift work;
innovator movement; youth researcher collective; necessary and actual
qualification level of post; deployment opportunities after
conclusion of course of studies in company and collective; necessity
of college or technical college education for practical occupation;
agreement of selected subject direction and cadre needs of company as
well as of work collective; company of deployment after conclusion of
course of studies; number of employees in company; occupation
characteristics; management function; burden from gaps in knowledge
in technical area, increases in difficulty of work, relationship with
leader, interhuman relations, extent of social work, housing
conditions, financial situation, social contacts, lacks in work
organization, travel times to city of study, insufficient interest of
company in studies and insufficient time for family; relation with
immediate superiors; relations in work collective; intended change of
job; district of main place of residence, of branch and technical
college at which registered; education at place of residence;
distance to place of education; commuting times; completed workplace;
employment of partner; support by partner in fulfillment of study
obligations; number and ages of children; occupational qualification
of parents and partner; social status of parents and partner.