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Table 3.5: Who paid the tuition fees by sourceFees paid byPer cent withfees paidMean£Amount where fees paidMedianN£Self 59 701 620 1,468Family and friends 3 556 480 72Bank loan/ Career1 * * 17development loanEmployer 35 892 850 747Fee13 673 600 301Waiver/financialassistanceschemeOther 4 625 550 81Base 2,534* indicates insufficient observations to provide a robust figureBase: All students excluding those who paid no fees.Source: London South Bank University – UK Part-time Student Survey 2006• Table 3.5 shows the percentage of students receiving contributions towards their tuition/coursefees from the different sources.• The students themselves most frequently paid for their tuition/course fee costs – nearly threein five did, with each one paying an average of £701 over the academic year. Of those payingfees, a half paid less than £620 and half of them more than this sum.• However, it is worth noting that overall, two in five of all part-time students surveyed paidnothing out of their own pocket towards the costs of their tuition/course fees.• There was no clear-cut relationship between the likelihood of a student paying some or all oftheir own fees and their personal or household annual income. However, students withpersonal incomes over £35,000 were more likely than those with lower personal incomes topay for their own fees (71% compared with 56%).• The second most common contributor to course/tuition fees was employers. Over a third ofstudents (35%) (whether or not they were employed) had some of their fees paid by theiremployer (Table 3.5). This compared with 41 per cent found in Woodley’s (2004 p14) studyand 19 per cent found in the 2004/05 SIES study (Finch et al, 2006 p145).• Of those students employed, 40 per cent received some help from their employer towards thecosts of their fees. Those employed full-time were two and a half times more likely than thosewith part-time jobs to receive such financial help – (45% compared with 17%).Part-time students and part-time study: Strand 3 Universities UK 31
• By contrast, in Woodley’s (2004 p14) study, 58 per cent of full-time employees had some or allof their fees paid their employer while Callender (1997) found the proportion was 53 per cent.But it must be remembered that both Woodley and Callender’s studies only included studentson 50 per cent + FTE courses.• Employers spent an average of £892 on fees. However, they spent slightly more than themean at £910 on their full-time employees but less than the mean on their part-timeemployees at £689.• So the key beneficiaries of employers’ financial support for fees were those in full-time jobs,the majority of whom were men (82% of men worked full-time compared to 62% of women).Thus, men (40%) were more likely than women (31%) to be beneficiaries of employer financialsupport.• However, when women worked full-time, they were more likely than their male peers to receivehelp from their employer with the costs of their tuition/course fees (48% compared with 42%)but less likely when they worked part-time (8% compared with 19%).• Moreover, employers were most likely to sponsor students taking vocational qualifications. Forinstance, nearly a half of those taking a foundation degree/HND/HNC/DipHE/CertHE receivedhelp compared with only 23 per cent taking no qualification, and 33 per cent studying towardsa first degree.• Employers did not necessarily help finance the studies of their lowest or highest paidemployees. The students most likely to receive help with their fees had personal annualincomes of between £20,000- £24,999 – a half of whom benefited from employer support withtuition costs. Students with incomes above or below these sums were less likely to obtain helpfrom their employer.• However, there was a linear relationship between receiving tuition fee help from an employerand household income. The higher the household income up to £49,999 per annum, thegreater the likelihood of getting employer financial support. Thus, students with annualhousehold incomes of between £35,000-£49,000 were three and half times more likely to befinanced by their employer than students with household incomes of £15,499 or less (49%compared with 14%). In other words, the wealthiest students benefited the most from employersupport.• Finally, 13 per cent of students had some of their fees waived or paid for through a financialassistance scheme. The mean contribution form this source towards the costs of course/tuitionfees was £673.• Of those students who had some of their fees waived, they were most likely to have receivedhelp through a Government grant (80%) or from their HEI/college (15%).• Lone parents were the student group most likely to have their fees paid via grants or throughtheir HEI/college – nearly a half did (49%), followed by those without paid employment (39%).And the lower the students’ household income the greater the likelihood of obtaining suchfinancial support. For example, 48 per cent of students with a household income of £15,499 orPart-time students and part-time study: Strand 3 Universities UK 32
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