Cherednichenko G.A. Educational trajectories of part-time higher education consumers. In: Part-time students and graduates of higher education: social behavior in education and the labor market: monograph ...

Abstract

Part-time students and graduates differ from full-timers in that they possess a different amount of educational resources at the enrollment stage, and have specific needs, the most important one being that of entering the labor market and/or compensating for one's reduced competitiveness. A large proportion of part-time students and graduates already have a vocational school diploma, which reflects the growing popularity of the bypass strategy to access higher education among certain social groups, which allows them to slip past the obligatory high-stakes testing. Educational capital of HEIs candidates (corresponding to four types of educational trajectories of part-time students and graduates) correlates with their socioeconomic backgrounds. The advantages and disadvantages of educational background at baseline extend into the next stage of education – in HEIs. The structure of specialties of education for part-time students, in comparison with full-time students, turns out to be narrower and skewed towards the direction of training Sciences of Society