The research, by UCL Institute of Education (IOE) professor Claire Callender (also Professor of Higher Education Policy at Birkbeck) and John Thompson, shows that while the number of part-time undergraduate students has been declining over the past caused the decline to increase.
The biggest drop has been among students aged over 35, whose numbers have fallen from 95,000 in 2010 to 39,000 to 2015. Consequently, the part-time sector is not only smaller, it is different. The 2012 reforms have changed both the part-time undergraduate student body and the qualifications they study. Continue reading »