How Important the Successful Use of Time Management is for Postgraduate Students? A study developed in Ireland.

The objective of this research is to understand `How Important the Successful Use of Time Management is for Postgraduate Students? A study developed in Ireland’. To develop this piece of work a qualitative phenomenological and interpretive research design will be assumed, which involve interviewing four former students that already finished, successfully, their post-graduation courses, at National College of Ireland (NCI), concerning the importance of succession time management planning. As one of the challenges, the individuum skill set and different ways to managing their time, which, according with Creswell (2013), is important to understand the context and which situations have directly influenced the group experiences, that could be adapted as per each social, professional and extra activities aspects, as for example, drop or collect children at school. Moreover, a literature review will be produced, in order to recognize and present evidence accessible, focusing to support its academic work.

The interviews will be driven concerning two individuals’ profiles. The first one will be through students that during their course activities had any type of time management schedule control and secondly, those, that didn’t perform any kind of monitoring model, or at least did it, without clear understanding, which according to H. Kearns & M. Gardiner (2007) is essential to develop student's good study practice and study habits in order to achieve their goals and to reduce students afflictions about tasks. Differences were being identified by gender perspective, when the female profiles presented certain extra activities versus the males profiles, as for example, domestic tasks as cook, wash clothes or even clean their houses, another important facts and recommendations will be shared in order to help further researches to evaluate the based practice of time management for postgraduate students or even for general academic purposes.