Pick 'n' mix sweetens pill for part-timers; Northern Ireland's two universities are 'going modular' with their degree courses

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Ulster University and Queen's University in Northern Ireland are introducing modular degrees in 1992. Northern Ireland meets the government target of one in three young people going into higher education, many of them studying part-time. The modular system which divides the academic year in two, and allows degrees to be taken in two years is particularly suited to part-timers. Students accumulate credits and can move between departments.

Education, Higher, Higher education, Northern Ireland

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Weighting the justice scales

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Research illustrates that students from deprived backgrounds and ethnic minorities are disadvantaged when applying to both medical and law schools. The research also highlighted that employers tend to favour good students from traditionally good universities as opposed to the newer ones.

Research, Law schools, Law school admissions, Discrimination

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Universities braced for Blair health plan

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Medical schools are to expand to make provision for 1,000 extra student doctors as part of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair's National Plan for the National Health Service. In 2000-01 there will be places for 5,475 medical undergraduates.

Blair, Tony, Social policy, Recruiting, United Kingdom. National Health Service

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