Dictionary of British Education
This term is usually used to distinguish courses of study that result in the award of a degree, diploma or similar advanced qualification, from various kinds of further education (FE) institutions.
So far such work has been conducted in universities, which awarded their own degrees, and polytechnics, which offered them in the name of the Council for National Academic Awards (CNAA). The Further and Higher Education Act (1992) removed this distinction and replaced it with a single higher education system embodying both institutions.
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