Part-time students: six ways to better support them

By Claire Shaw. From flexible learning to employer involvement, experts from our recent live chat offer their advice on how we can move forward. 
1) Communicate the benefits of part-time learning
"Almost all the effort that went in to communicating the new fees and funding system was directed at young people intending to study full time at the expense of mature and part-time students, so there's still a lot of misperceptions out there. But there's also a price issue. We know that mature learners are much more sensitive to debt than their younger peers. Without a sizeable government subsidy for part-time higher education that enables universities and colleges to bring down their fees, not much is going to change." (Katy Morris, million+)
"Part-time students also need to know this support is available, and how to access it. This is complicated by opening hours and the fact that some support workers aren't fully aware of how certain things like the benefits system works for part-time students compared to full-time students." (Bez1of14, commenter).  More...