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Half Full, Not Half Empty: A Positive Look at Part‐time Higher Education
Author(s) -
Davies Pat
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
higher education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.976
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1468-2273
pISSN - 0951-5224
DOI - 10.1111/1468-2273.00120
Subject(s) - higher education , lifelong learning , full time , sociology , political science , education policy , pedagogy , positive economics , law , economics
This article explores the largely negative view of part‐time higher education in contemporary policy discourse and the academic community. It presents the available data and re‐interprets it in a positive way demonstrating that part‐time students are not only in the (silent) majority but represent a model of lifelong learning, generate significant income for the universities and represent a resource of great potential for higher education. However, it concludes that there remains an outstanding research agenda and policy debate before its full potential can be realised.