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38.
to
Our present
supply of graduates is not sufficient
Last
keep up with the growing requirements of employers.
October, I said that we must increase the number of local
graduates as quickly as possible. Also, that I had asked
the University and Polytechnic Grants Committee to consider
how to achieve a major increase in the number of first-year,
first-degree places. The Committee has now produced a plan
which
will deliver the numbers we need and, at the same
standards. Its
time, maintain
internationally
recognised
proposals will mean that, by 1994, six out of 10 students
leaving the sixth form will have an opportunity to study for
a degree course at one of our tertiary institutions. The
University of Science and Technology, which will open on
schedule next autumn, will play a significant role in this
expansion.
39.
was
the
I said last year that this programme of expansion
ambitious. The strain will fall particularly heavily on
teaching staff. We shall need to recruit up to 3,000
new university teachers, against а worldwide shortage of
academics and a local background of losses through
emigration.
This will not be easy; but the UPGC has
on ways to meet the
already put forward
challenge.
recommendations
/40. Nowhere
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