The press seems to have become particularly interested in the idea that students are set to struggle to engage in their course “full-time”.
The Observer splashed with “UK universities offer three-day-week to let students find part-time work”, noting examples from DMU, Sunderland, Anglia Ruskin, University of Law and Coventry.
I’ve certainly come across a whole heap of franchised “full-time” provision that is advertised as requiring study at “weekends only”, or where you only study for “two days a week”, and I’ve come across plenty of courses where “blended” now means “your lectures are [only available] online but your seminars will be in person”.
The Tab, the Mail and The Times have all remixed the 2-3 day week story, and BBC Northern Ireland uses figures from the Department for the Economy to note that “more and more students” are taking up part-time jobs to support themselves – with a student services director arguing that “it’s important to find the balance between working part time and studying full time.”
