Callender, Claire (2015) New modes of delivery: the threatened potential of part-time Undergraduate education in England. In: Jongbloed, B. and Vossensteyn, H. (eds.) Access and Expansion Post-Massification: Opportunities and Barriers to Further Growth in Higher Education Participation. International Studies in Higher Education. London, UK: Routledge, pp. 181-211. ISBN 9780415890441.
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Abstract
This chapter will explore the factors facilitating and inhibiting the supply of part-time undergraduate higher-education provision in England. To contextualise this discussion, the chapter will start by outlining the nature and scale of part-time provision in England. Then it will examine the key characteristics of part-time undergraduates in England and how they differ from those of full-time undergraduates, including a brief discussion of recent trends in higher-education enrolments. Next, the chapter will explore the factors impacting on these enrolment trends, specifically those affecting the supply of part-time provision. It will focus on issues that help to explain the uneven distribution and patterns of part-time undergraduate provision both across the higher-education sector and within higher-education institutions, highlighting the role of government policies. Th is will include some discussion of part-time students’ motivations for studying. Finally, the chapter will explore the 2012/13 reforms, aimed at boosting the supply of part-time provision and question their potential effectiveness. In particular, the introduction for the first time of student loans for some part-time students to pay for the large increase in their tuition fees.
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Item Type: | Book Section |
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Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | part-time student, part-time student funding, 2012 reforms of student funding, England, higher education, student loans |
School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences |
Depositing User: | Claire Callender |
Date Deposited: | 25 Jan 2021 06:23 |
Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:58 |
URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/31104 |
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