The proportion in full- or part-time education in Britain fell from 18% to 17% over the time, whereas the OECD average rose from 18% to 25%.
Lady Bakewell says she intends to use her new role at Birkbeck - which specialises in evening and part-time courses and is part of the University of London - to exert pressure on government to support part-time higher education.
Lady Bakewell says "unprecedented" support is needed to ensure the future of part-time higher education.
Birkbeck, University of London, specialises in part-time higher education courses and says it has seen a fall in applications which mirrors the national picture.
While high-quality, part-time pre-school education (for three- and four-year-olds) seems to help children cope with school, dumping babies in nurseries all day long before they are one is also pretty clearly bad for them.
Are there ways that businesses can help part-time workers to pursue higher education, perhaps by providing access to health benefits or by offering more predictable working hours so that would-be students can more easily schedule their classes?
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Perhaps more significantly, 77% are expected to take part-time or summer jobs while at high school, and 81% to contribute to the cost of college education by working part-time.
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Part-time study is key for students not entering higher education through a more traditional route and will be vital to the success of the widening participation agenda.
In England, the law has been changed so that by 2015, all young people will have to stay on in education or training at least part-time until 18.
Part-time study is the only way many people can access higher education and we must support it.
They are often in their early 30s, possibly parents, working full- or part-time, and likely to be the first generation in their family to get an undergraduate education.
Statistics released recently by the Higher Education Funding Council for England show that since 2010, across England, part-time undergraduate numbers have fallen by 40%, while part-time postgraduate numbers fell 27%.
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