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The new provisions for funding higher education are unfair to part-time students according to some institutions. Part-timers make up 25% of the student body in some colleges, and many receive no financial help towards courses. Colleges get between 0.4 and 0.5% funding for each part-time student. It is suggested that government funding could be balanced according to how many years it took to gain the qualification or money paid per completed module.
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Further education took priority over higher education in the 1992 autumn statement. The government would like to see a 25% increase in further education students by 1995. Funding for higher education will allow a 13% increase until 1995, but the rapid growth in numbers will slow down as funding will not be available. If recruitment in higher education had continued at the present rate the year 2000 target would have been reached by 1996.
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In April 1992 a working party was looking at ways of funding universities and polytechnics. They were considering elements of assessment and asking for opinion, a decision will be made in July by the Higher Education Funding Council. Funding is now geared towards the expansion in student numbers, the aim being one in three young people in higher education by the year 2000.
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