The bar charts illustrate the students’ motivation in education and support features they receive from their employers for age groups from under 26 to over 49.
Generally, the younger the people, the more they want to study to achieve their career goal, whereas older people groups are learning because of interest. In the middle-aged group both motivational factors seem to be at the same level. Also, employers are giving more support to groups with differences in motivation types with one of the factors substantially prevailing.
The career reason to study, just as well as support given by employers, is at its maximum in the under 26 group of people with: 80% for the first chart and 65% for the second, whereas interest as an educational motivation is at its bottom with 10%. Career study reason and employers’ support decrease in the next groups, until reaching 30-39 aged students, with interest continuing to grow. These people receive the least amount of support, merely 35%, but still prefer career motivational factors in education to interest. By reaching 40-49 years, interest and career start to value identically to students, and employers’ support measures begin to grow. For people over 49 years old, the main study motivator is the interest: the value reaches its peak with 70%, while the career factor hits the bottom with approximately 19%. These students receive more benefits regarding education from their companies: 45%.
In conclusion, for people groups from under 26 to over 49, career reason to study dropped from 80% to 19%, interest factor climbed from 10% to 70% and employers’ readiness for support was fluctuating between 35% and 65% with the biggest values for younger and older people and lowest for middle-aged students.