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Reference has been made in paragraph 8 to the fact that the Technical College is already offering courses at the post-secondary level. The number of students enrolled in these is shown in the following table:
Technical College Enrolment at the
Post-Secondary Level
Full time students
1,400
Part-time day release students
400
6,400
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Part-time evening students
From
In addition to the students on, courses at the post-secondary level given in the table in paragraph 12, there are, at the moment, other students at the College attending courses at lower levels. 1970 onwards, these courses will be held at the Morrison Hill Technical Institute so that the capacity of the Technical College for post- secondary courses will be increased and it will be possible for the student enrolment to be raised to 2,000 full time, 500 day release and 10,000 evening students. The Director of Education already has plans aimed to expand to these figures at the Technical College after the lower level courses have been hived off to the Technical Institute.
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Although this will represent a useful contribution to the number of full time students receiving higher vocational education, it is clearly not enough to meet the need, especially as there is only limited scope for expansion of the Technical College on the present site. The University Grants Committee suggested that by about 1980 there will be a need for at least as many full-time students receiving higher vocational education as there are University students and it envisaged
AS that by 1980 the University student population might be 10,000. mentioned in paragraph 9, a University student population for 1973/74 of 6,000 students has already been agreed so that it seems that the number of higher vocational students should be developed from 2,000 towards a goal of 6-10,000 by 1980, with an initial target of 4,000 for 1974.
The Alternative Methods
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The figure of 4,000 students postulated in paragraph 14 indicates a need for some new institution, even allowing for the full development of the Technical College. One possibility would be the setting up of a new institution at an intermediate level between the Universities and the Technical College. At first sight this is an attractive idea, particularly as such as institution would undoubtedly
On the other enjoy the necessary status in the eyes of the public.
hand, there would be difficulties in defining the boundaries between it and the Universities on the one hand and the Technical College on the other. This course of action would almost inevitably lead to the downgrading of the Technical College and the loss of many of its better teaching staff to the new institution. Bearing in mind that the Technical College provides full-time courses in 12 specialities to within one year of professional qualifications such as M.I.C.E., it is considered that it would not be practicable to insert any new institution between the Universities and the Technical College.
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An alternative would be the provision of a further institution at about the same level as the upper level of the Technical College,
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