The bar chart illustrates the number of men and women pursuing further education in Britain in three periods and also with specifying on whether they were studying full-time or part-time. Overall we can see that for both men and women, there is a huge difference between the number of them who were enrolled for full-time education and part-time education.
For males in the period 1970/71, there were about a thousand thousand who were studying part-time, while there were only about a hundred thousand studying full-time. In 1980/81, for males studying part-time decreased to around nine hundred thousand, while full-time increased to approximately a hundred and fifty thousand. By 1990/91 even though males studying part-time increased to about nine hundred and fifty thousand, the students enrolled for full-time also did increase to two hundred thousand.
For females during 1970/71, about seven hundred thousand were studying part-time while there were only nearly fifty thousand studying full-time. In 1980/81 the numbers had increased to eight hundred thousand for part-time and two hundred thousand for full-time. And by 1990/91, around a thousand and fifty thousand females were studying part-time while about two hundred and fifty thousand were studying full-time.
From the data, we can conclude that for males the number of people studying part-time varied non-linearly decreasing and increasing from time to time, but the number of students who were studying full-time was increasing from 1970/71 to 1990/91. While, for females, there has been an increase in the number of them studying both part-time and full-time greatly.