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Table 3.13: Gross household income of students surveyedPer cent BaseIncomeN
4 Attitudes to the costs of study and student support, and theadequacy of student support4.1 Optimum tuition/course fee price for part-time studentsWe assess the optimum tuition fee price for maximising participation by using price sensitivitymodelling, following van Westendorp. This approach compares students’ answers to the followingquestions:• At what price would your course be too expensive to even consider taking?• At what price would your course be so cheap that you would doubt its quality?By cumulating the response to these questions it is possible to say for any price the percentage ofstudents who say the course is ‘too expensive to consider’ and the percentage of students who sayit is ‘too cheap to trust’. Where these percentages are equal is the price that maximises thepercentage of students who will accept the course.Figure 4.1 plots these cumulative percentages and indicates that the optimum fee price is around£600 for the academic year. At this price, roughly 14 per cent of students report that their coursewould be too expensive and 14 per cent report that they would doubt the quality of their course.Figure 4.1: Cumulative percentages of students reporting that their course would be tooexpensive and the price would indicate a course quality problem by possible course price100%80%60%40%20%0%£0 £200 £400 £600 £800 £1,000 £1,200 £1,400 £1,600 £1,800 £2,000Quality ProblemToo expensive to buyBase: All students.Source: London South Bank University – UK Part-time Student Survey 2006Figure 4.1 also shows that half of the students reported that the course would become tooexpensive at £1,400 or less, whilst the average value at which the course would become tooexpensive was £1,666.Part-time students and part-time study: Strand 3 Universities UK 46
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