Study Skills: Managing Work-Life Balance in Higher Education

This essay delves into the critical study skills essential for success in higher education, focusing on the challenges students face in managing work-life balance and strategies to overcome them. It identifies the pressures of academic and social life, along with the competition for placements, as key difficulties. The essay then outlines how students can design effective study plans, emphasizing the importance of analyzing current study habits, utilizing time management techniques, and setting learning objectives. Furthermore, it evaluates methods for improving reading skills, including vocabulary building, utilizing online articles, and reading aloud. The essay concludes by highlighting the significance of these skills for achieving academic success and overall well-being. The provided assignment is available on Desklib, a platform offering AI-powered study tools and resources for students to enhance their learning experience.

Study Skills for
Higher Education

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
Identification of some reasons related to difficulties in managing work life balance at
university. Discussion on the ways students can design effective study plan for overcome
difficulties....................................................................................................................................1
Identification and evaluation of ways through which students can improve reading skills........2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Study skill is said to array of skill that tackles methods to organise and take new
information along with dealing with assessments (Assiter, 2017). It is an approach which is
applied towards learning. It is critical for higher education, critical success in learning and
considered important for attaining good grades. The present essay is based on an article and
answers to questions about reasons for difficulties in maintaining work life balance in university.
It also discusses the ways in which students can design effective study plan with the purpose of
overcome difficulties. It also identifies and evaluates ways for improving reading skills by
learners.
MAIN BODY
Identification of some reasons related to difficulties in managing work life balance at university.
Discussion on the ways students can design effective study plan for overcome difficulties
According to Lawton (2019), mounting social along with academic pressure says that
higher education can be huge challenging for a student. Work life balance is said to lack of
opposition among work to that of other roles. In other terms, it is about equilibrium state in
which demands related to personal, family and professional life are qual. In context to university
students, they are facing huge difficulties or complexities to manage work life balance because
of following students:
Pressure to be successful: at university level, students find it more complex to maintain
work life balance as they have huge pressure for becoming successful in the competitive world.
They see other successful students and makes themselves engaged in learning activities for
becoming successful (Kyte and Et. Al., 2017). It is also identified that a student in university has
more doubts for their successful future that makes them worried about the efforts will make them
successful or not to have great future.
Getting placement in lucrative organisation: University students have huge thoughts to
get lucrative job role once they complete their graduation studies. However, when the rates or
proportion of university placement are seen by students this enhances their difficulties for
maintaining balancing aspects in work life. At same time, competition for lucrative job role
among students is generally high which is another reason that create complexities among
students to manage their work life balance (Long, Cummins and Waugh, 2017).
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Effective study plan is defined as organised schedule that outlines study times as well as
learning objectives. The certain ways through which university students can achieve success in
designing appropriate study plan in order to deal with complexities is analysing own existing
study habits along with styles of learning which is the first step in which students must think
about the things that works and the things which do not work. Accordingly they will analyse
their current habits and styles through which they learn. Further, students will evaluate current
schedule and management of time in different learning (Manning, 2017). For this they can use
digital calendar in order to block all standards commitments and extracurricular activities. It will
let them know the time they spend and the time available for them to study hard. When students
are aware about the available time with them to study then can develop effective schedule in
which they can schedule their study session along with devote time to other recreational
activities. By identifying learning objectives for each class will help students to determine the
time they requires to spend studying. Through assessing calendars they can make emphasis
towards overarching objectives that will motivate them to overcome complexities and manage
their work life in balance. The last is sticking to schedules wherein university students can
achieve success in cracking placement requirements and making returns on investment through
enhancing their knowledge in desired level.
Identification and evaluation of ways through which students can improve reading skills
In university, a student acquires various types of skill through interacting with new people,
attending classes etc (Pears and Shields, 2019). Following are identified ways with the help of
which students can enhance their reading skills in university:
Vocabulary: It is one of effective way to gain knowledge in reading comprehension in
English. When student wants to improve their reading skills they can adopt the approach for
gaining excellence in reading. They can also note complex terms from vocabularies to enhance
future reading (Succi and Canovi, 2019). The benefit of the method is that it helps student to
memorise wide words that they can use for future reading, however, disadvantage of the method
is that it makes huge difficulties in initial duration which even makes a student frustrated.
Online article: It is one of effective platform for improving reading skill. A student can
select best article writers as well as follow their articles on regular basis. This will benefits in
adapting the tricks that are used by writers and marking unknown words as well as memorise
carefully. However, limitation of the method is that it takes huge time of students to develop
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readings skill as writers uses different ricks in different articles that can even make learners
confusing.
Reading aloud: Student find it complex to read in front of others. To develop reading
skills, they can read any content in load manner (Suleman, 2018). Despite of pushing, students
should take a book and real it to loudest pitch as they can. It will benefit them to remember what
they read and can develop reading in fast manner. However, limitation of the approach is that
this method disturbs others and many time students read wrong things that becomes in their
habit.
With mentioned ways, a student can improve their reading skills at universities and feel
confident in reading any type of content in front of large population.
CONCLUSION
The above essay concludes that study skill is important for attaining success in higher
education along with life phases. The reasons which cause complexities among students to
manage work life balance are pressure to be successful and getting placement in lucrative
organisation. Effective study plan plays significant role in helping students to overcome
difficulties and manage work life balances properly. The ways that can help in improving
reading skills of student are vocabulary, online articles and reading content or information loud.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Assiter, A. ed., 2017. Transferable skills in higher education. Routledge.
Kyte, R. and Et. Al., 2017. Enhancing Study Skills: Development of an Institute Wide Website.
Long, T., Cummins, J. and Waugh, M., 2017. Use of the flipped classroom instructional model in
higher education: instructors’ perspectives. Journal of computing in higher education.
29 (2). pp.179-200.
Manning, K., 2017. Organizational theory in higher education. Routledge.
Pears, R. and Shields, G. J., 2019. Cite them right: the essential referencing guide. Macmillan
International Higher Education.
Succi, C. and Canovi, M., 2019. Soft skills to enhance graduate employability: comparing
students and employers’ perceptions. Studies in Higher Education, pp.1-14.
Suleman, F., 2018. The employability skills of higher education graduates: insights into
conceptual frameworks and methodological options. Higher Education. 76 (2). pp.263-
278.
Online:
Lawton. G., 2019. Why are students at university so stressed. The Guardian, UK. Available
from: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/may/31/why-are-students-at-
university-so-stressed [Accessed: 16 June 2020]
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