The graph illustrates the number of male and female students enrolled either full-time or part-time education in Britain over the 3 decades. Overall, it is clear that most of students studied part-time, although this figures decline for males, while the full-time increased consistently. In contrast, for females both part-time and full-time participation showed an upward trend.
In the 70s, there were about one million males studied full-time, then it fell to around 850 thousands by 80s, before rising back to approximately 900 thousands for 90s. However, full-time starting in about 100 thousands, and the figures boosted slightly reaching 200 thousand participants.
There was a rapidly increased in a part-time education in females. In 70s, around 700 thousands studied part-time. Following the next decade, this number grew and reaching 800 thousand, and continue increased for the next third decade.
In summary, part-time is more popular than full-time. But full-time have an increasing trend from 1970 to 1990 both for men and women.