In the fourth and final guest blog on the decline in part-time student recruitment, Tessa Stone argues that the potential of part-time study as a driver of widening participation and social mobility depends on access to good information, advice and guidance. Part-time higher education has the potential to be a serious driver of widening participation [...]
The latest guest blog exploring the decline in part-time HE student recruitment - Mary Stuart asks why the introduction of loans for part-time students has failed to deliver the expected boost in part-time HE and reflects on the cost to the economy and to society more widely. Part-time higher education has had many challenges over the [...]
In the second of a series of guest blogs on the decline in part-time and mature student numbers in higher education, Aaron Porter, who was President of the National Union of Students during the tuition fee debate of 2010-11, analyses the causes of the decline. If you have followed the debate surrounding the reforms to [...]
Last week, UCAS published its final end-of-cycle data on full-time higher education applications and acceptances for 2012. They showed, as expected, that there was a significant drop in the number of full-time students going to British universities in 2012. Beyond this, there was little agreement among commentators and in the media as to what the [...]
