What Are the concerns of Part-Time Adult Students in Some Albanian Faculties?

Abstract

In Albania, like everywhere else in the world, the adults are facing a lot of challenges. They should confront with a lot
of complex problems that are dealing with continuous transition of economical, social and cultural aspects of our society. In
these conditions, adults should give solutions to these problems. One solution is to return to school, to adapt better with the
challenge of our time. But, what are the concerns of adult students, when do they take the status of students? What are the real
conditions on which the teaching and learning activities take place? How do they experience the learning process in the
classroom? The main aim of this paper is to present some of the concerns of the adult students when they frequent the parttime
study in some Albanian faculties. In this study there are used the qualitative analysis, and more specifically, the thematic
analysis. The instrument that is used for gathering data is the semi-structured interview. As a conclusion, one of the more
important findings of the study is that, the adult students that frequent part-time study are not quite satisfied from solutions that
institutions offer for them. Moreover, the auditorium conditions should improve more. The lecturers should improve the teaching
and learning methodologies, in such a way for the adult students to feel more included in the learning process.