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The chart below shows the number of men and women in

further education in Britain in three periods and whether they


were studying full-time or part-time.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main
features, and make comparisons where relevant.
PSQ Technique

1. Position: Describe the graph…I


think I believe…..
2. Structure:
a. Introduction: Paraphrase+
Overview
b. Similarity:
c. Difference:
No conclusion
The chart depicts how many male and female students were
studying full-time or part-time in further education in Britain
between 1970/71 and 1990/91. Overall, it can be seen that the vast
majority of students were part-time and there were more students in
1990/91 than in 1970/71, especially women.
Looking firstly at part-time versus full-time study, it is clear that
most students were part-time in each year shown in the chart. The
number of part-time students was over 700,000 per gender per year,
going as high as 1.1 million, whereas for full-time study the number
was between 70,000 and 250,000.
Moving on to look at gender differences, numbers of female
students increased in both full-time and part-time education whereas
the number of males in part-time education decreased. For example,
there were 70,000 full-time and about 750,000 part-time female
students in 1970/71, but by 1990/91 these numbers had risen to over
200,000 full-time and around 1.1 million part-time. The number of
male full-time students also went up from around 100,000 in
1970/71 to over 200,000 in 1990/91, whereas for part-time study
their numbers went down from 1 million in 1970/71 to around
850,000 in 1980/81, before rising slightly to about 900,000 in
1990/91.

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