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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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