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Saturday, August 14, 2004
'Time bomb' warning over student numbers - FIONA MACGREGOR, Edinburgh News
University chiefs in Scotland have been warned they are "sitting on a population time bomb". Fears that the nation’s falling population will lead to a drop in student numbers have been raised by a leading academic....Professor John Field, director of Stirling University’s Division of Academic Innovation and Continuing Education, said: "Assuming that half of all 17-year-olds enter higher education, the fall over the next 20 years will be about 8500 Scottish students. "Universities and colleges will find themselves having to compete with employers to attract able school-leavers." The professor added that institutes would need to offer more flexible learning arrangements to adapt to people’s work and family commitments if they were to keep up student numbers. "The implication is that there will be more work-based and workplace learning and possibly more so-called blended learning, with face-to-face and online learning.
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