"For the record, it is currently possible to do an OU degree in three years"
I know that, that's sort of central to my thought, which is why it was frustrating to get FTE numbers back. I was beginning to wonder if _you_ knew that. "Full time" and "full time equivalent" are only "equivalent" under a bunch of assumptions that do not cleanly apply to the idea of adding tens of thousands of 18 year olds doing a degree in three years to the OU student population.
It is quite possible that nobody has figures for just the OU's full time students (I believe that would be those taking ~120 credits per year) but the FTE numbers are no substitute, leaving us with "I don't know". If you in fact do find numbers for just full time that would still be interesting.
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Date: 2010-07-19 11:11 am (UTC)I know that, that's sort of central to my thought, which is why it was frustrating to get FTE numbers back. I was beginning to wonder if _you_ knew that. "Full time" and "full time equivalent" are only "equivalent" under a bunch of assumptions that do not cleanly apply to the idea of adding tens of thousands of 18 year olds doing a degree in three years to the OU student population.
It is quite possible that nobody has figures for just the OU's full time students (I believe that would be those taking ~120 credits per year) but the FTE numbers are no substitute, leaving us with "I don't know". If you in fact do find numbers for just full time that would still be interesting.