Employer Perspectives on Part-Time Students in UK Higher Education

Mason, Geoff; Hopkin, Rebecca

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“…Aligning HE with the world of work (Helyer, 2011) is of importance to a range of stakeholders (Amaral and Magalahes, 2002; Kettunen, 2015). Previous research has focussed on employer needs (Mason and Hopkin, 2011), in respect of employability (Gallup Organisation, 2010). Employability as a result has developed in educational terms as a set of transferable skills and competencies (Hind and Moss, 2011).…”

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“…In this context, the strongest employer support was reserved for part‐time study that helped meet work‐related skill needs, particularly in practical and technical skills areas but also skills relating to communication and problem‐solving. About four in five employers providing fee support actually made it a condition of their support that courses should be work‐related and more than half of them reported that employees were obliged to pay back fees if they left the firm or organisation before a certain time period had elapsed (Mason and Hopkin, ). The legal status of agreements to ‘claw back’ fee payments is sometimes questioned.…”

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“…The legal status of agreements to ‘claw back’ fee payments is sometimes questioned. However, in‐depth qualitative interviews with some survey respondents found that employers were willing to enforce agreements and that they rarely encountered resistance from employees in doing so (Mason and Hopkin, ).…”

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“…Although the idea of part‐time study for higher education qualifications is often initiated by employees, the survey findings also showed that many employers supporting part‐time study believed that this would not just help employees become more knowledgeable and valuable to their organisations but would also help in retaining them and in promoting their career development (Mason and Hopkin, ). Furthermore, when assessing the cost‐effectiveness of supporting existing employees to gain higher education qualifications as compared to external recruitment of people who already held those qualifications, many employers placed high value on the job‐ and organisation‐specific experience already possessed by existing employees as well as the new skills and knowledge they were expected to gain through part‐time higher education study.…”

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“…In recent years sizeable proportions of part‐time higher education students in the United Kingdom (UK) have received support from their employers in the form of course fees being reimbursed (in whole or in part) and paid time off work being granted for study leave (Callender and Wilkinson, ). Survey evidence suggests that these kinds of employer support for part‐time higher education study have contributed strongly to the development of work‐related skills and knowledge, with resulting benefits for both employers and the employees concerned (Mason and Hopkin, ).…”

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Part‐time Higher Education: Employer Engagement Under Threat?

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2014

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Employer support for employees who are studying part‐time for higher education qualifications constitutes a form of indirect employer engagement with higher education institutions that has contributed strongly to the development of work‐related skills and knowledge over the years. However, this form of employer engagement with higher education institutions now seems to be in some jeopardy, with reduced employer willingness to subsidise high education course fees: partly because of slow economic growth since the 2008–09 recession and partly because of increases in tuition fees. These cutbacks in employer support for part‐time study may have contributed to the sharp decline reported in the numbers studying for part‐time undergraduate higher education qualifications in the United Kingdom since 2009. One important implication for policy‐makers is that, without new initiatives designed to encourage employer support for part‐time study, this form of education is now less likely to contribute to the adult skills upgrading required to bring United Kingdom skills up to the standards of leading industrial nations.

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In this paper we present an investigation of how experience-led content in an engineering degree can be strengthened by creating opportunities for engineering students to benefit from the knowledge, skills and resources of students with current professional experience. Students who study civil engineering part-time at Coventry University (while also working in the industry) are being used as mentors for full-time students, and careful attention is being paid to the input they can make to group project work. This paper reviews the results of evaluations of these two initiatives. The clearest enhancement to learning provided by the part-time students in these settings is the access they provide for the full-time students to real examples, and the provision of actual physical artefacts such as drawings, photos, example documents and templates. Full-time students also gain an awareness of the value of the professional skills. The study confirms the value of these initiatives and points to future improvements.

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