Summer semester pilots get Pounds 9 million

After years of debate on 바카라사이트 academic year, pilot summer extension programmes are to begin in 1996.

The Higher Education Funding Council for England agreed at a meeting this week to allot Pounds 9 million over 바카라사이트 next two years to summer semesters at Liverpool John Moores University, Luton University and La Sainte Union College of Higher Education, Southampton. They were chosen from around ten applicants, predominantly from 바카라사이트 former polytechnics and 바카라사이트 college sector, but including one college of London University.

Bahram Bekhradnia, policy director at HEFCE, said 바카라사이트 money would cover 바카라사이트 extra costs of running summer semesters. He emphasised that 바카라사이트 pilot programmes were not seen as a means of shortening 바카라사이트 length of degree courses. "While some students will go through faster, it is also a means of accommodating more students," he said.

Applicants were required to show that 바카라사이트 quality of teaching and learning offered would be 바카라사이트 same in 바카라사이트 summer semester as during 바카라사이트 rest of 바카라사이트 year. The circular inviting bids emphasised 바카라사이트 potential benefits to part-timers and those not affected by consolidation.

The programmes stem from 바카라사이트 Flowers committee on 바카라사이트 academic year, which reported in 1993. There has been some scepticism among HEFCE members about 바카라사이트 value of extension pilots. But 바카라사이트 programmes were endorsed by a sub-committee chaired by David Johns, vice chancellor of Bradford University. He said: "The three-semester year has inspired an impressive range of interesting and innovative proposals. Even those institutions who have not been chosen should benefit from 바카라사이트 stimulus this has provided."