He also highlighted the rumbling anxiety among universities about the funding of postgraduate education.

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Loughborough University will offer postgraduate education while Hackney Community College will establish its new digital apprenticeship programme at iCITY.

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Professor Paul Wellings of the 1994 Group, research-intensive universities, welcomed the review of postgraduate education, saying "there are a number of issues that need urgently to be examined".

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The CDGDC is entrusted by the Chinese Ministry of Education and the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council to evaluate and appraise the academic degrees and postgraduate education.

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But ahead of that framework, he announced a review of postgraduate education, to be carried out by Professor Adrian Smith, director general of science and research in his department.

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