Students: Working Hours

(asked on 27th November 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the average number of hours worked by students who have jobs.


Answered by
Robert Halfon Portrait
Robert Halfon
This question was answered on 5th December 2023

The Student Income and Expenditure Survey publishes data on students’ working patterns. The survey for the 2021/22 academic year asked students who were in work to state how many hours they had worked in the week prior to completing the survey. The average (mean) number of hours worked in this reference week by full-time students was 12, while the median was lower, at 8. The average (mean) number of hours worked in the previous week by part-time students was 32 while the median was higher, at 37 hours.

This published data also showed that full-time students who are in employment tend to work tend to work more hours during the summer vacation compared to term time.

The Student Income and Expenditure Survey for the 2021/22 academic year can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/student-income-and-expenditure-survey-2021-to-2022.

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