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With the levelling off in enrolments, however, a number of problems are emerging which relate to the student mix and the transfer of some activities to the Technical Institutes. In general terms the situation is that there has developed a sharp downward trend in the enrolment of part-time · evening students, and an uplift of students on part-time day release courses. Figures placed before us indicate that, if present trends continue, the number of part-time evening students in 1983-84 will be 12,015, as compared to 14,318 in 1980-81 and 18,000 assumed in the 1978 White Paper, while the number of part-time day release students will be 5,058 in 1983-84 as compared to 3,901 in 1980-81. The effect of these trends and others of a less significant nature will be to generate a total student body of some 27,541 students when the Government target of 12,000 FTEs is reached, rather than the. figure of nearly 30,000 envisagéd in the White Paper. The Committee notes that the planned increase in part-time day-
release students is associated, at least in part, with the requirement to provide additional places in Higher Certificate courses following implementation of the Apprenticeship Ordinance. Quite generally, however, an expansion in such courses is to be welcomed as providing new opportunities for students in employment and able to take advantage of day release for study purposes. The question of the appropriate number of part-time day-release and part-time evening places to be made available at the Polytechnic, and more generally the student mix as a whole cannot be divorced from consideration of the wider question of the expansion of activity in the Technical Institutes and the transfer of work from the Polytechnic to the institutes. This question is undoubtedly one which will be subject to examination by the review Committee on post-secondary and technical education which
the Government has established.
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