Sentence examples for Part-time learner from inspiring English sources

"We can extend Harvard to the part-time learner with the academic ability, curiosity, and drive to succeed," says Huntington Lambert, dean of the Harvard Extension School.

Colleges are still doing their sums, but most reckon the average part-time learner will face a yearly bill of some £300.The government says that firms which employ migrant workers should contribute, but it has not come up with a way of making them.

Under current funding arrangements, part-time learners, who make up around 39% of the student population, are particularly disadvantaged.

"Drops in student numbers and the Open University's losses are simply further evidence of the neglect and dire straits currently facing adult and part-time learners in higher education".

The report also shows how government could address the systematic discrimination against part-time learners in the funding systems for both further and higher education; suggests a revival of local responsibility, especially in further education; and argues for a greater emphasis on how skills are used in and out of the workplace.

For more than 100 years higher education has largely resisted change — and functioned reasonably well without an intense focus on the complex life needs of adult and part-time learners.

Remote access to a renewable energy lab opens new ways to the education of photovoltaics by offering the students a feeling of direct experience with actual PV equipment and is a process exceptionally useful for part-time learners, distance learners, as well as students with disabilities.

Nor that seeking new revenue streams particularly from part-time adult learners would be contrary to the mission and values of these schools.

MBA students (full-time, part-time and distance learners) are expected to make a contribution equal to 20% of the total course fees from their own funds.

There has been a serious drop in the number of part-time and mature learners, and that represents a tragedy of lost opportunity for tens of thousands of would-be students.

The Commons' committee, chaired by the Conservative MP Robert Halfon, said it was "deeply concerned" by the fall in part-time and mature learners, and the impact on the socially disadvantaged going into higher education, since undergraduate tuition fees were raised to £9,000 in 2012.