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Szerman, Kim (2017)

PRYCA and its contribution to school dropouts and quality of life of youth in Puerto Rico

Master thesis | Latin American Studies (MA)

The issue on school dropouts has a great effect on societies and when a country faces the problem, it is mostly the largest problem in its educational system. This counts as well for Puerto Rico, the island faces a problem with school dropouts and it is clear that intervention programs are desired to give support on solving this problem and therewith to increase Quality Of Life (QOL) of youth. In Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Youth ChalleNGe Academy (PRYCA), is one of these intervention programs and therewith, this field research answers the following research question: “How does PRYCA contribute to the quality of life of its students?”

Puerto Rico

Quality of Life

PRYCA

ChalleNGe

education

school dropout

youth

Puerto Rico Youth ChalleNGe Academy

Author

Szerman, Kim

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Public Policies in Latin America

Supervisors

Valdivia Rivera, Soledad

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en