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ContentsExecutive Summary 51 Introduction 81.1 The policy context ............................................................................................................. 81.2 Existing research............................................................................................................. 101.3 Aims ................................................................................................................................ 111.4 Methods .......................................................................................................................... 121.5 Outline of report .............................................................................................................. 121.6 Characteristics of the sample.......................................................................................... 122 Reasons for studying 182.1 Why students decided to study part-time rather than full-time ....................................... 182.2 Why students decided to do their course/qualification.................................................... 192.3 Why students chose their particular HEI/college ............................................................ 212.4 Conclusions.....................................................................................................................223 The costs of study 233.1 Tuition/course fees.......................................................................................................... 233.2 Other course costs.......................................................................................................... 343.3 Total study costs ............................................................................................................. 373.4 Students’ income............................................................................................................. 443.5 Conclusions.....................................................................................................................454 Attitudes to the costs of study and student support, and the adequacy of studentsupport 464.1 Optimum tuition/course fee price .................................................................................... 464.2 Optimum tuition fee price and the role of student support.............................................. 474.3 Student support............................................................................................................... 504.4 Conclusions.....................................................................................................................575 Experiences of studying part-time 595.1 Barriers to participation in students’ course.................................................................... 595.2 Other constraints on students ......................................................................................... 615.3 Length and intensity of study .......................................................................................... 625.4 Modes of study and patterns of study............................................................................. 635.5 Use of university services and facilities .......................................................................... 665.6 Conclusions.....................................................................................................................686 The long view 706.1 Course’s value for money and the returns of study ........................................................ 706.2 Destinations ....................................................................................................................716.3 Conclusions.....................................................................................................................727 References 738 Appendix 1 – Tables 759 Appendix 2 – Technical Report 809.1 Sampling ......................................................................................................................... 809.2 The questionnaire ........................................................................................................... 819.3 Pilot ................................................................................................................................. 819.4 Fieldwork......................................................................................................................... 829.5 Data analysis...................................................................................................................849.6 Weighting the data .......................................................................................................... 84Part-time students and part-time study: Strand 3 Universities UK 3
TablesTable 1.1: Student support ............................................................................................................................... 9Table 1.2: Socio-economic characteristics of students surveyed ............................................................ 14Table 1.3: Institutional characteristics of students surveyed..................................................................... 16Table 3.1: Amount of course/tuition fees paid by socio-economic characteristics: Mean anddistribution ....................................................................................................................................................... 25Table 3.2: Amount of course/tuition fees paid by institutional characteristics: Mean and distribution.26Table 3.3: Full-time equivalent level of fees by socio-economic characteristics: Mean anddistribution ....................................................................................................................................................... 29Table 3.4: Full-time equivalent level of fees by students’ institutional characteristics: Mean anddistribution ....................................................................................................................................................... 30Table 3.5: Who paid the tuition fees by source ........................................................................................... 31Table 3.6: Other course costs by type........................................................................................................... 35Table 3.7: Who paid these course costs ...................................................................................................... 36Table 3.8: Average total costs by students’ socio-economic characteristics: Mean and distribution .. 39Table 3.9: Average total costs by students’ institutional characteristics: Mean and distribution ......... 40Table 3.10: Costs incurred by socio-economic characteristics: Mean and distribution ......................... 42Table 3.11: Costs incurred by students’ institutional characteristics: Mean and distribution ............... 43Table 3.12: Gross personal income of students surveyed ......................................................................... 44Table 3.13: Gross household income of students surveyed ...................................................................... 45Table 4.1: Average fees charged by HEIs compared with the value of the fee grants............................. 55Table 4.2: Percentage of students surveyed being charged fees greater than the value of the feegrants................................................................................................................................................................ 56Table 5.2: Travel to course ...................................................................................................................... 68Table A2.1: Percentage of students who reported degree of importance of reason decided to studypart-time ........................................................................................................................................................... 75Table A2.2: Percentage of students who reported degree of importance of reason decided to do thecourse ............................................................................................................................................................... 76Table A2.3: Percentage of students who reported degree of importance of reason chose theirinstitution ......................................................................................................................................................... 77Table A4.1: Attitudes to student support and costs of study....................................................................78Table A5.1: Percentage reporting the extent of difficulty in participation in course .............................. 78Table A5.2: Other study constraints............................................................................................................. 79Table A6.1: Attitudes the costs of study and the returns of HE ................................................................ 79Table A1: Response rates for HEIs................................................................................................................ 83Table A2: Comparison between HESA and survey data for all part-time students who are studyingfor a qualification............................................................................................................................................. 85Table A3: Qualification aim – comparison between HESA and survey data for all part-time studentsstudying for a qualification............................................................................................................................. 86Part-time students and part-time study: Strand 3 Universities UK 4
Page 2: Part-time students and part-timestu
Page 7 and 8: (35% compared with 12%); and two an
Page 9 and 10: 1 IntroductionThis report is about
Page 11 and 12: • all three bands of the fee gran
Page 13 and 14: 1.4 MethodsAn online web-based surv
Page 15 and 16: Table 1.2: Socio-economic character
Page 17 and 18: Table 1.3: Institutional characteri
Page 19 and 20: 2 Reasons for studying2.1 Why stude
Page 21 and 22: Figure 2.2: Percentage of students
Page 23 and 24: • By far the most frequently cite
Page 25 and 26: • Those students incurring the lo
Page 27 and 28: Table 3.2: Amount of course/tuition
Page 29 and 30: − on short courses lasting one ye
Page 31 and 32: Table 3.4: Full-time equivalent lev
Page 33 and 34: • By contrast, in Woodley’s (20
Page 35 and 36: towards a qualification (62%) and o
Page 37 and 38: 3.2.2 Who pays the other course cos
Page 39 and 40: • Of the total costs, 59 per cent
Page 41 and 42: Table 3.9: Average total costs by s
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Page 45 and 46: 3.4 Students’ incomeThese expendi
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Page 51 and 52: Figure 4.4: Cumulative percentages
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However, there were significant dif
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A further 16 per cent of the survey
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Table 4.2: Percentage of students s
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Just over one in five students thou
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higher proportion of students than
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in five (22%) students disagreed wi
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Figure 5.3: Percentage of students
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Table 5.1: Where students study: Me
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5.5.1 Travel to and from university
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6 The long view6.1 Course’s value
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were intending to go for promotion,
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Taylor, C (2006) Graham Review of P
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Table A2.2: Percentage of students
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Table A4.1: Attitudes to student su
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9 Appendix 2 - Technical report9.1
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surveys the data is not able to inf
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Data AnalysisFollowing the completi
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Table A3: Qualification aim - compa
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