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News Release from: Technology Innovation Centre
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Centre reports record student intake
At a time when UK universities are struggling to attract new students to engineering and technology courses, the University of Central England Technology Innovation Centre reports a record intake.
At a time when UK university faculties are struggling to attract new students on to engineering and technology courses, the University of Central England's Technology Innovation Centre (TIC) reports a record intake this academic year For the first time well over 500 new students have embarked on one of TIC's 18 undergraduate courses run at its Millennium Point campus in central Birmingham
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 23 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Douglas Morley-Smith, TIC's Associate Dean in charge of undergraduate enrolment, comments: "It seems TIC's top ratings among engineering faculties, and reputation for producing very employable students, are bearing fruit".
"These factors, together with our strong local, national and international industry alliances, and status as a major international academy for Cisco, are helping boost demand for our undergraduate places in engineering and technology".
"This contrasts with the trend being seen elsewhere".
Numbers of students are on, or above, target on over 85% of all TIC's full-time programmes.
This year has also seen TIC achieve its largest ever intake of overseas students, on both undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses.
More are expected to join its postgraduate programmes for the second semester in February 2005.
At the recent CBI conference, Director General Digby Jones said of globalisation: "The challenge is to create more jobs than we lose - which we are doing - and to ensure people have the skills to take advantage of them, which remains a problem".
TIC - also ranked among the Institution of Quality Assurance's top three UK education centres - is successfully playing its part in solving that problem.
TIC is also active in promoting the Government's new foundation degrees.
Douglas Morley-Smith says: "I'm glad to say TIC is making good progress, offering a particularly valuable foundation degree in information and communication technology".
"We are currently seeing fresh interest in the TIC's second semester start in February".
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