BY ELIZABETH GIBNEY, London Times Higher Education
The number of people accessing online postgraduate programmes is booming, figures from Europe’s largest provider of such degrees suggest. Data from the University of Liverpool show that annual enrolment across the 23 programmes it runs more than quadrupled between 2007-08 and 2012-13. Among women the increase has been even more pronounced (more than five times higher). Alan Southern, Liverpool’s director of e-learning, said growth was apparent across all programmes. The typical student is in full-time work and sitting the courses part-time, the data show. The average age of the cohort is 38 and about 90 per cent of the students hail from outside the UK, Dr Southern added.
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