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Department, aimed at achieving co-ordination between developments
at the Polytechnic and the technical institutes. Apart from being
members of the Polytechnic advisory committees, professors and
senior academic staff of the two universities serve as external
examiners for the Polytechnic in the same way that Polytechnic
staff members serve on the examination subject committees of the
two universities. The 1978 White Paper target of 12,000 full-time
equivalent places at the Polytechnic by 1983-84 should be achieved
without difficulty: within this total the Polytechnic intends to
start offering some courses at degree level and to increase the
number of students on higher level work.
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The Polytechnic (like the two universities) has achieved
substantial growth over the past decade, as the following figures
show:
1972-73
1979-80
Full-time
1,583
6,682
Part-time day-release
1,025
3,272
1
Part-time evening
1,968
14,953
Total
4,576
24,907
(full-time equivalent)
(2,253)
(10,265)
Basic student figures for 1979-80 by level and mode of attendance
are as follows (percentage in brackets):
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