The Role of Socio-Economic Factors in the Professional Self- Determination of the Students of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Abstract

Considering the tendencies of transition to mass higher education both in the world and in Ukraine, the article raises the issue of equal access to qualitative educational services. Depending on the socio-economic status of the parents' families, a peculiar grouping of the receivers of education with larger or smaller opportunities occurs. This causes the heterogeneity of the student community, even within the same university, when different groups of students are characterized by a different value system, including their educational and professional expectations. On the example of the students of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv the differences in educational and career trajectories and in students' labor activity depending on the financial status of their parents' families are analyzed. Also the respondents' differences in socio-structural parameters are determined. It is concluded that there is the need of a balanced policy conducting on the part of university administration  for a work with the various student groups.