Part-time Students And part-time Study In Higher ... - Universities UK

Table A2: Comparison between HESA and survey data for all part-time students who arestudying for a qualificationHESAFirst Survey: firstdegree degreeHESA-OthercourseSurvey -othercourse/DK/None HESA-sumSurvey:sumSubject studied - all part timeMedicine & dentistry 0% 1% 0% 1% 0% 1%Subjects allied to medicine 17% 8% 20% 10% 19% 8%Biological sciences 8% 4% 2% 2% 4% 3%Veterinary science 0% 0% 0% 1% 0% 0%Agriculture & related subjects 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%Physical sciences 4% 4% 1% 2% 2% 3%Mathematical sciences 2% 9% 0% 13% 1% 10%Computer science 7% 0% 5% 0% 6% 0%Engineering & technology 5% 7% 3% 4% 4% 7%Architecture, building & planning 3% 6% 1% 5% 2% 6%Social studies 10% 14% 8% 12% 8% 14%Law 5% 7% 1% 3% 2% 6%Business & administrative studies 7% 12% 8% 19% 8% 13%Mass communications and documentatio 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% 1%Languages 4% 7% 8% 3% 6% 6%Historical and philosophical studies 7% 6% 5% 2% 5% 5%Creative arts & design 2% 2% 3% 1% 3% 2%Education 4% 3% 13% 14% 10% 5%Combined 16% 12% 22% 9% 20% 11%All 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%Gender - all part timeFemale. 61% 60% 59% 65% 65% 61%Male. 39% 40% 33% 35% 35% 39%All 100% 100% 91% 100% 100% 100%Age - all part timeLess than 18 0% 0% 1% 1% 0%18 to 29 35% 33% 25% 28% 29% 32%30 to 49 54% 56% 51% 58% 52% 56%50+ 11% 11% 20% 14% 17% 11%Age unknown/reduced return 0% 0% 2% 0% 2% 0%All 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%Table A2 thus shows that gender and age were broadly similar between the survey data and HESAdata, whereas there were wide differences in terms of subject studied (eg only 8% of surveystudents were studying subjects allied to Medicine, compared with 19% of all part-time students).In terms of qualification aim, the survey also included a disproportionately high number of studentsstudying for a first degree, as table A3 demonstrates:Part-time students and part-time study: Strand 3 Universities UK 85