The chart below shows the number of men and women (in thousand) in further education in Britain in three periods and whether they were studying full-time or part-time. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart compares the ratio of full-time and part-time learning in the UK from 1970 to 1990, and the figures are divided by gender. The unit is thousands of individuals.

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, numerous people of both genders studied in a part-time curriculum,

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only a small portion of them took the full-time class during the period. The percentage of men in part-time courses fluctuated, as that in full-time courses rose over

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time.

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, the more female

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enrolled in both types of education in every single year. In detail, 1 million male students took long-term courses from 1970 to 1971, and the number of them slightly decreased to around 800,000 in the

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semester, before they experienced a resurgence in 1990.

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, fewer than two hundred thousand men enrolled in short-term teaching in 1970, which eventually jumped to over 200,000 in a couple of years.

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, data for women, who were collected as part-time students, represented less than 0.8 million in 1970,

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the proportion of them increased to over 800,000

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, that of females had a dramatic incline in 1990, which placed over a million. By the time, the more part-time female students studied, the later they applied to universities.