26 May 2004

Part-time Students: short end of the stick

Good points made in this article which is about how the UK governments funding proposals for HE are likely -unless altered- to discriminate rather badly against part-time students -who, let's face it, may be in some case no more or less part time than some registered as full-time ... The issue is -do we want to lose the Open University [and as someone hoping/thinking to enroll, my answer is 'no'].

Interesting points to ponder; in p/t HE there is already a free market in fees. Part time students are ineligible for lstudent loans but may actually be working similar hours both employed and at academic work as "full-time" students. hmmm.

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