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But yes, it is going on, and certainly in polytechnics.

You will have attended one of the many art schools or polytechnics.

There are 20 universities and 30 polytechnics in the country.

They are more likely to study part time, in polytechnics, and to be mature students.

Its influence on the colleges, including the future polytechnics, was also important.

A system of vocational schools and polytechnics were developed over the years.

The polytechnics changed their names when they gained university status.

Polytechnics in Malaysia has been operated for almost 44 years.

Many former polytechnics have now followed similar paths to full University status.

The student population at polytechnics is growing much faster than that of universities.

It is offered by universities, polytechnics and other colleges of higher education.

Unlike polytechnics in some other countries, they do not offer degree courses.

A second example was the brief early hope that the polytechnics would become "people's universities".

One of the largest polytechnics in the region, it dates from 1904.

Consider, for example, the new students who this week begin courses at universities and polytechnics.

So full or part time work in University excluding the former polytechnics, have no effect on your pension.

The establishment of 3 new engineering colleges and 23 polytechnics.

Capital funding available from the polytechnics has increased by 50 per cent.

Special community charge rules already apply to students in higher education at universities and polytechnics.

New universities - the former polytechnics - and specialist institutions have done well.

Polytechnics and universities operate on a different calendar from schools.

On the site of the school, there are government plans to open a junior college or a polytechnics institution.

Try also the local council, library, and any community colleges, universities or polytechnics.

You'll find one at most of our branches near universities, colleges and polytechnics.

They can complement the universities and polytechnics in three major respects.

Now, though, a tendency is developing in which the idea of 'polytechnic education' is being reduced from 'many arts, many skills'to simply 'many skills'.

The 'polytechnic schools' set up in Augsburg, Munich and Nuremberg, which bridged the gap between middle schools and higher education colleges in their capacity as 'lyceums' (or high schools), were the first approach.

The DES memorandum suggested that the new institutions be called 'polytechnic institutes'(another throwback to the late nineteenth-century institutions) but the Council expressed a preference for 'polytechnic colleges'- and neither nomenclature in fact survived.