Results of a study of 1,275 individuals receiving undergraduate degrees at the University of Victoria in May 1986 showed considerable shifting between full- and part-time status among all students during degree completion and a pronounced shift toward part-time status as graduation neared. (JOW)

The paper looks at part-time higher educational services for students in the educational systems of Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. A comparative examination of the nature and importance of part-time higher education is then presented. (DB)

Many studies have acknowledged a shift from elite to mass participation in Australian higher education over the last decade. As the diversity of the student intake rises there is a growing interest in the factors predicting their success or failure. This article identifies a set of variables predicting University of Western Sydney (UWS) student…

This report includes Summer 2007 semester enrollment information for Wyoming's seven comprehensive community colleges. Selected data includes student counts by credit hours, county, full-time students (FTE), program or study, ethnicity and a ten-year history. (Contains 12 tables.) [For the Spring 2007 enrollment report, see ED502750.]

Since, with changing marriage and career patterns, women have been re-examining their educational possibilities, this study considered: (1) whether women in small towns had motives different from those in large cities, (2) if motives differed with age, (3) how levels of aspiration differed, and (4) how vocational plans varied according to…

The study uses a cost-benefit framework to estimate the value of obtaining an MBA degree on a part-time basis while holding a full-time professional position. The part-time degree was found to be a worthwhile investment in human capital. (Author/LH)

A discussion of university provision for parttime students in England and some proposals for improvement. (Editor)

Estimates of the relative net private, social, and institutional costs indicate that the private and social costs of part-time education may be significantly below those of full-time study, but that the institutional costs may be higher. (Author)

Adult part-time students make great efforts to manage competing demands on their time. These efforts can be undermined by lack of institutional processes that ensure efficient, effective, and economical educational services. (SK)

A personal-views survey and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory were completed by 25 full-time and 16 part-time nursing students. They reported moderately high levels of hardiness and low anxiety, but these characteristics did not correlate with academic achievement. (SK)

The tendency for university students to work full time is generally regarded as a problem. A method can be developed to implement the necessary requirements of a degree program in a way that makes it possible for students to put their jobs on hold while working toward a degree. (JOW)

This study examined the demographic, pre-college, environmental, and college factors that impact students' interests in and decisions to earn a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) degree among students attending a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). Results indicated that Hispanic students were well represented among STEM…

This study examines second-term and second-year persistence of 19,489 freshmen at American River College (ARC), a large, urban, public community college near Sacramento, California. Academic and non-academic characteristics are compared between first year dropouts and those students that enroll one year after the first fall term at ARC for two…

The purpose of the Airlie Conference in 1972 was to develop ways to further Anglo-American cooperation on problems in higher education. A participant observer of the conference presents her personal assessment of the conference, including some reference to part-time student workers. (Author/PG)