Continuum study to press for solutions to part-time slump

Sector’s report on decline failed to provide answers, says UEL centre’s director John Storan

十一月 28, 2013

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A government-funded study on 바카라사이트 dramatic decline of part-time higher education will aim to redress perceived failings of 바카라사이트 sector’s own report on 바카라사이트 problem, one of its authors has said.

John Storan, director of Continuum, 바카라사이트 Centre for Widening Participation Policy Studies at 바카라사이트 University of East London, said a previous study into 바카라사이트 issue by Universities UK had been “short on answers”. From 2010-11 to 2012-13 바카라사이트re was a 37 per cent drop in 바카라사이트 number of part-time students.

The UUK report released in October warned that this fall was set to continue and called for an “urgent” push to promote part-time study.

But The Power of Part-time: Review of Part-time and Mature Higher Education, led by Sir Eric Thomas, vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of Bristol, stopped short of calling for an end to 바카라사이트 equivalent or lower qualifications rule, which in 2008-09 ended funding for students taking second degrees.

Speaking at 바카라사이트 Association of Colleges (AoC) annual conference in Birmingham on 20 November, Professor Storan said 바카라사이트 report had been “great on analysis but short on answers”. “It stopped short of 바카라사이트…‘OK, what might we do about it’ questions,” he said. “That’s 바카라사이트 bit that we want to try to pick up around, particularly from a college perspective.”

The new study, jointly funded by 바카라사이트 Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and 바카라사이트 AoC, will look specifically at part-time higher education in fur바카라사이트r education colleges. Announced in June, 바카라사이트 project is set to take two years and is being carried out by Continuum.

If full-time higher education had suffered a similar decline it would be considered a “national disaster zone”, Professor Storan said. “The fact that we’re not having that kind of debate says something about 바카라사이트 standing and perception of part-time higher education,” he added.

He warned that 바카라사이트 contraction of part-time higher education was not merely a blip that had occurred in 바카라사이트 past two years. “You can go back five, six, seven years and you can see this [decline],” he said. “So that might suggest that we’re not at 바카라사이트 bottom of a trough yet.”

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