Research and analysis

Part-time students in UK higher education: employer perspectives

Analysis of surveys to investigate employer support for part-time higher education study. BIS research paper 27.

• From: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
• Published: 25 January 2011

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Employer perspectives on part-time students in UK higher education

Ref: BIS/11/655

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Report that uses surveys of part-time students and their employers in the UK to investigate the extent and nature of employer support for part-time HE study. It also looks at the perceived advantages and disadvantages of this kind of study for the organisations concerned.

In October 2013 we published a follow-up study on employers that supported staff on part-time higher education courses in 2009 and 2011: Employer support for part-time higher education students

Published 25 January 2011