text: The title of the course is not what defines your status as a student but the amount of time spent doing that course. If you are attending lectures/lessons on a full time basis then you are a full time student. Part time students usually have a job or something else they are doing at the same time hence only attend lectures/lessons for a few hours a week, say two/three days or just evenings each week or even on line. Such is the ethos of the open university.