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The paper presents parents’ views on how scholarships, grants and other financial assistance should be awarded to students to aid their schooling and results of a test of the vested interest and group identification models. The study was precipitated by the fact that more and more young people with academic potentials terminate their education prematurely due to financial encumbrances. The study was modeled along the quantitative paradigm. Stratified, systematic and simple random methods were respectively employed to select the communities, houses and subjects used for the study. Descriptive and inferential statistics were employed for the data analysis. Results demonstrate that generally parents are averse to giving financial assistance to students without recourse to their family financial standing. However, there were differences in the views of the elite and non-elite parents, and parents in urban and non-urban centres. Based on the results, it is concluded that the vested interest model explains the preference of the parents.
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To Cite this Article: Kuranchie, A., Amaning, N., & Anim, R. O. (2020). Prioritising Assistance to Brilliant but Needy Students: The Viewpoints of Parents. International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development, 9(3), 350–362.
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