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Title:  Students’ Experience Who Live Off Campus
(UPDATED)

Case Study
Unimas students

Objetives
- To identify what challenges and advantage student that living off campus
- Identify what experience students had face in their daily live as student living off campus
- Describe several methods to overcome the causes of problems that occur to student living off campus

Introduction
- Off-campus living has long been a subject of concern for universities and colleges worldwide, particularly in terms of student welfare and living circumstances.
- Accommodations play an important part in the socialisation and learning processes, and bad accommodations might have a detrimental influence on academic achievement.
- Being off campus provides benefits such as When you live outside of the scope of your institution, you have greater flexibility to do anything you choose.
- Advantages and disadvantages of off-campus student housing for all students living near University Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) in order to identify any challenges.

Problem Statement
- Off-campus students face several challenges, including transportation, housing and living arrangements, food and financial problems, and their overall attitude about living off-campus.

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Title: Students’ Economic Backgrounds In Meeting Living Costs of Higher Education

Objectives
1)The factors of living cost among students increased

2)Ways to solve the problem about the increasing cost of the
living among student

Research methods
- qualitative survey

Pros
- students learn how to manage their expenses
- creating their budget
- control spending habits
- set up saving account

Cons
-transportation cost
-the cost of returning home during the semester break
-cost of daily expenses
-study fee costs
-health costs

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Title:
Problem Encountered by Students who Live off Campus

Case Study:
UNIMAS student

One Major Question:
- What are the major problem that has been faced in their daily life as a student living off the campus?

Introduction:
- What is my research about
- What are the problem I want to identify
- What the significance of my research

Problem Statement:
- Facilities
- Using limited transportation
- living cost
- Distance from accommodation to campus

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Title

Interracial Marriage in Malaysia

Research Methods

1) Constructivism

2) Positivism

3) Interpretivism

Problem Statement

- Some couples who marry different races experience difficulties in a married life because they have different backgrounds in terms of race, culture, identity, and religion.

- Interracial couples may also experience disagreements over values if they are racially or culturally distinct from one another.

- An interracial couple will possibly face extra challenges in their marriage such as Derogatory comments in public, Loss of contact with friends or family that disapprove, Negative comments online or in the media, Negative stereotyping, Open hostility and intimidation, Rejection from family or being disinherited, A sense of isolation, Stares, insults, jibes, slights, and whispers.

Case Study

- Unimas Community

- Citizens

Literature Review

1) Mixed marriages in Switzerland

- Switzerland has a multicultural population in Europe.

- Mixed marriages are unions of people with various ethno-racial ancestries.

- Western European nations have historically welcomed immigrants and experience significant immigration flows. (Massive immigration spurred by labour market demands, refugees from war zones, and certain highly skilled jobs generated by country's high density of international.)

- A reactive ethnicity, defined as a stronger loyalty to one's own ethnic group, would be encouraged by a shifting marriage market and an unfavourable institutional backdrop for immigration.

- legal integration of immigrants and attainment of particular citizenship privileges

-Understanding the role that mixed marriages play in immigrant integration requires looking at many relationship transitions at once, with an emphasis on both the creation and timing of such unions' breakdown.

2) SOCIO DEMOGRAPHIC CHARATERISTIC OF INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE : STUDY OF MULTIETHNIC COMMUNITY IN MALAYSIA

-Increase level of social contact and loosening of traditional social norm between people from different races and religion background lead to rise in intercultural marriages among Malay, Chinese. Indians, and Bumiputras

-mixed ethnic increase due to increase in intercultural marriages

-First intercultural marriages in Malaysia is during Malaccan Empire between Princess Hang Li Poh (China) and King Mansor Syah (Malacca), and then, from this, Baba and Nyonya Culture came about

- The emphasis on spousal capacity in interracial marriage on matchmaking (educational background , socioeco status and interest) ( but based on western samples of research so may not be 100% compatible to Asian population)

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Title:
E -Hailing services and female students safety/experience

Problem statement:
Is the E-hailing service safe for female students in Unimas

Objective:

-  Explore female student experience when using E-Hailing services

-  Spreading awareness on the danger of using E-hailing services among female Unimas students

Observation:

-   Personal experience

-   The rise of sexual harassment cases involving E hailing services especially among women

-  More women feel unsafe when using E- Hailing services especially alone and at night

-  Female students are easy target and more exposed to the danger as most depend on these E-hailing services for transportation

Causes;

-  Less to no transportation option for female students to take at night

-  Female students who are residing in college rarely had transportation

-   Inconsistent price for the same distance of places

-   Drivers who violate ethics when providing e hailing services

Effects:
- Traumatising experience for the victims =

-  Will cause other users to distrust e-hailing services

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Our group's topic already discussed with Dr Lucy last week. The only problem is our topic/title, so we decide to suggest some titles that can fit our research.

Title suggestions :
1. permasalahan dan penambahbaikan pengangkutan bas terhadap pelajar unimas
2. Perkhidmatan bas
3. The effectiveness daily transportation among Unimas student
4. The effect of ineffectiveness student transportation service
5. The Approach of Solving Bus Problems in UNIMAS
6. The Bus Behavior
7. The Efficiency and Reliability of Daily Transportation Services Among The Students

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How Students' Incomes Affect Their Ability to PayLiving Costs in University.

-transportation cost
-the cost of returning home during the semester break
-cost of daily expenses
-learning costs
-health costs

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Societies in Unimas view towards LGBT communities.

Research methods:

-Constructivism

Case study

-Unimas community(students, lecturers and staffs)

Objectives:

-to determine whether Unimas’s society still stigmatize or normalize the LGBT community.

-To identify  about the perspectives of LGBT people who are open about their gender identity.

Pros:

-Learn more accurate information about the reality of being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.

-Reduce the reliance on gender roles and stereotypes.

Cons:

-People who believe that being gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender is wrong, sinful, or goes against their family values may question your values, morality, and personal character.

-Others may speculate about your sexual orientation or gender identity. You may be labeled as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender by association, which may make you uncomfortable.

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Disadvantages of University student renting houses

Research methods;
Constructivism

Problem statment
-Facilities (wifi)
-Distance from accomidation to campus
-living cost (bills, groceries, utilities)
-Security

Effects
- Difficulty for students to do assignment because have to rely on data.
- late to campus/ classes
- expensive living cost
- students safety is not secure.

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CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR ON ONLINE SHOPPING

Research methods;
- Constructivism
- Paradigms

Case study:
- UNIMAS Students
Objectives:
- To investigate the factors that influence consumer's willingness to purchase items from online shops.
- to identify the pros and cons of purchasing online

Pros:
- Online shopping can help consumers save time and money
- Consumers have a variety of options when purchasing products online because there are many options.
- The ability to pay for items differently than you may in a physical store . For instance, some retailers accept E-wallet or PayPal.
- Customer reviews for almost every product consumers can think of are readily available online, allowing for wise selections.

Cons:
- Consumers are worried about the branding and trust towards online shopping
- Consumers are concerned that the items they ordered may not arrive on time
- Consumers are worried that the product they saw online are not as what they expecting it to be when they receive it
- Consumers are thinking twice before purchasing due to postage fee

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Full-time students prefer to work and the effect of full-time students doing part-time job.

Research paradigms: Constructivism

Case study: UNIMAS students

Pros:
-to get side income/extra pocket money
-learn to manage their money by doing budget management; financial management for their university and college fees, for meals, shopping, stationery fee, emergency cases
-develop interpersonal skills; good communication with the customer, problem solving; build relationship with colleagues and employer
-build students professional work; work efficiently, can solve the problem that they face; gain knowledge about their role in the field; advanced training

Cons:
-not focus/concentrate during the lecture; lack of rest and not have enough sleep
-constant exhaustion; sometimes student doing over time work
-poor time management; too much focus on work causes students to not be able to manage time properly between task that need to be completed and side work; easily make excuses just to do part-time job,
-less times to devote to academic studies (decrease in test scores and overall grades)

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The usage of E-learning: Advantages & Disadvantages towards Student's Learning Experiences during Covid-19 Pandemic.

Research Paradigms: Constructivism

Pros:
- Save time & money: Can manage our schedule & take online courses at our most convenient time. Don't have to pay for transportation or worry about eating on the go.
- Personalized learning: Can choose our learning path & study at our own pace. Becoming more motivated & invested in the course.
- Environment friendly: Reduce usage of paper. Reduce frequencies of vehicles usage on the road, reduce air pollution.
- Better retention: e-learning make use of different platform like GMeet, Microsoft Teams, etc., which provide interactive and variable content.

Cons:
- Lack of Focus: is a detriment since it make it more likely for students to drop out. Need more committed individual to find the motivation to complete courses.
- Potential Social Isolation: Signs of social isolation will likely to emerge due to prolonged hours of learning online. Lead to mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, etc.
- Technical Challenges: May face technical challenges like inadequate internet access, device hardware failure, & unreliable electricity. Lack of regular internet access because inconsistent internet connection resulting in a loss coherence in learning.
- Lack of Communication Skills Development: Lack of socialization resulting to hesitation among students to collaborate effectively and lack of cooperation when doing the assessment/assignment.

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the new age of communication: the pros and cons (advad.& disadv.)
new, more advanced comm. technology, new platforms, affordable; university's students/unimas/

-digital, communication tech. online learning;
cyber crime; trading; access inform. speed; low cost;' privacy? socialization (PS: hackers -cyber crime; isolation often leads to mental health, -knowledge and users' ability to comprehend the inform received -easily swayed or influenced by propaganda, fake news; terrorism  etc) (literature?) -pessimistic
-iot; internet of things

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The efficiency of students' transportation service; the danger on students;

relationship between efficiency and bus services
observation:
kekurangan perkhidmatan bas
jadual bas tidak menepati masa
bas tidak diselenggara kan dgn baik
kesan: problem statement -safety;  mental health (late to classes/missed your lesson -affect grade); adding additional cost/financial burden;
-improve the topic & READ more literature relating to issue at hand!

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