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Part-time Students and Employment: Report of a Study of the Collection and Use of Information on the Employment of Part-time Students (The Open University)
This report presents the findings of a study on the feasibility of collecting employment data on part-time students and graduates. The study was undertaken by the Centre for Higher Education Research and Information (formerly known as the Quality Support Centre - QSC) of the Open University in collaboration with the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS) and six universities (Anglia Polytechnic, Nottingham Trent, Open, Sheffield Hallam, Westminster and Wolverhampton).
The aims of the study were:
To achieve these aims, the study entailed the following:
The study found that there is very limited information collected on the employment experiences of part-time students. The only commonly and regularly collected source of data is through the First Destinations Survey (FDS) which is undertaken at a national level six months after graduation, but this is done for full-time students only. This data are used in five main areas within the institutions: course and curriculum design (but only to a limited extent), institutional planning, quality assurance, careers and guidance, and marketing.
The questionnaire survey undertaken as part of the study achieved a 36 per cent response rate. The main findings from the survey were:
A separate report of the findings from the survey is also available.
The overall recommendations from the project include:
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