The paper investigated parents’ perception on the effects of the rising cost of living and access to quality secondary education in Rivers State. Three research questions were raised and answered and three hypotheses were tested in the study. The design employed for the study was descriptive survey. The population of the study consisted of all parents in the 302 public senior secondary schools in Rivers State while convenience sampling technique was used to select 284 parents, who volunteered to participate in the study.
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Career choice has been a recurrent problem among the students all over the world including Nigeria. It was a common practice in those days to find particular careers associated with particular families, where a blacksmiths son was destined to become a blacksmith and a leader’s son a born leader. This study therefore, examined the roles of parents and peer group on career choice of students of Technical schools with the hope of encouraging positive career choice. A non experimental research type of ex-post-facto was adopted in this study.