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In Holland there are not many opportunities of obtaining a university degree through studying in the evenings and at weekends. Only a few faculties have facilities and even these are limited. It is known, however, that at the moment there are no less than 10,000 students with full-time jobs (approximately 10% of the total number of university students). Finding adequate accommodation for this group is one of the major problems in the present educational system at Dutch Universities.
The most important aim of the investigation reported in this paper was to establish a profile of the evening (or working) students, on the basis of personal and background data, motivation and the problems they had to cope with. We presented to the working students questions about the structural aspects, the didactic processes and the organisational planning of a curriculum at a possible future “Evening University of Holland”.
This report recommends that an early start be made on an educational institution, organised nation-wide but with local departments, which focuses especially on working students.
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De Goede, M.P.M., Hoksbergen, R.A.C. Part-time education at tertiary level in the Netherlands. High Educ 7, 443–455 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00139658
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