EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT AND INDIVIDUAL INCOME: A STUDY OF PYANGAUN

Abstract

The main purpose of the study was to find out the level of income in relation with their educational attainment in Pyangaun village. Through this study I have tried to diagnose the correlation between the additional educational attainment and income level. Using mixed method in a sequential order, first quantitative and then qualitative, I attempted to investigate the relation of personal income and the level of formal education people have passed in my study area. Conducted in Pyangaun village, at the outskirt of Lalitpur city, through questionnaire and series of interviews, I have concluded with the findings that additional educational attainment has not enhanced people with additional income capacity and people have no direct faith with schools and colleges. They are attending schools and colleges only because they have nothing to do. The findings of the research encompass the perspectives of the locals of Pyangaun village who are the major stakeholders of this study. During the study I have found few of the people having handsome income in accordance with their education level. but later on the qualitative data revealed that they have different story to tell about rather than crediting merely on education level they have achieved. ii With reference to the findings drawn out from the empirical data and the literatures I have concluded with the recommendation that reformation in education system is necessary which could enable the students with direct entrepreneurship including local curriculum