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longer term implications for the institutions of maintaining this growth rate. This was done in the Chairman's letter of 2 April 1980. to the Chief Secretary;

(c) to ask the Universities to make proposals for part-time degree courses mainly for mature students, with a total enrolment of 1,000 by the mid 1980s;

(d) to make proposals for the introduction of a

limited degree programme at the Polytechnic;

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(e) to consider the extent to which technician education could be transferred from the Polytechnic to the technical institutes, while retaining, within an overall student population of 12,000 full-time equivalent (FTE), a substantial proportion of the Polytechnic's work at that level.

The Chief Secretary's letter of 2 February 1979 asked for the UPGC's comments as the starting point for the review of the growth rate at the universities envisaged in the White Paper. The Chairman's letter of 2 April 1980 provided impetus to a proposal, approved by the Governor-in-Council on 2 September 1980. that

(a) the university growth rates for the 1981-84 triennium should be increased from 3% to 4%

compound annually;

(b) a review of all targets for post-secondary

and technical education should be completed by mid 1981; and

(c) pending the outcome of this review, UPGC

should assume that university student numbers would continue to increase at 4%

annually in the triennium 1984-87.

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