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.

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The participants for this study were ninety-seven evening part-time MBA students from a large Midwestern urban university.

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Applications to the evening and weekend part-time M.

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This led to part-time study at a technical school and then evening attendance at the London School of Economics, working as an accountant by day.

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