Part-time student fall ‘mainly due to non-degree courses’

By David Matthews. Hefce analysis shows degree study not so badly affected.
The collapse in part-time undergraduate study since 2008-9 does not show that people are turning away from taking degrees part-time, a new Higher Education Funding Council for England analysis shows. Between 2008-9 and 2012-13 part-time undergraduate entrants fell by nearly 50 per cent to 157,700. Read more...