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3. Universities, pmlytechmics end mther Educetiomal Esteblislmsnts will be fo~d
under the nns of the lWm/City/Cmumty or geographical area in which they em
●itusted:
q ‘University of Beet Amglia’ will be found uoder ~Ssst Anglia’
‘City of Birmingham Pmlytochnic’ under ‘Birmingham”.
4. Whenwer a title ie written as ‘Institute of ..........‘ and m entry can be
traced, a check should always be made under Cinstitution’ (which follows
alphabstically after 2netitute), mxsstimcs en awarding body (perticularly
Engineering Inetitutiome) wi11 be written as ‘Institute’ witenit should bs
‘Institution’ . (AISO try ‘Royal’ ; ‘chartered’ ; Institutional) .
5. Brackets around psrt of the Awarding Institute nsms in the Indsx, indicate that
these words can bs included/excludedin the construction of the title,
e9. Gloucestershire (City) College of Technology
Guildford (County) College of l’achnology
Association (of) Stores and Material$ Controllers
Association (for the) Study of Medical s.3ucetion
In the Alphabetical Index the words in brackets sre ignored.
6. Abbreviations there is a separate volume containing en alphabetical list of
recognised abbreviations and designatory letters.
-7. Dates - Sometimss the level of the qualification is dependent upon the year in
which the qualification waa gained. If tbia is not possible to deduce (check
age of informsnt and age left full-time education) code to the current level of
the qualification.
0. Associate, Certificate and Diplomss
The qualification Index containa eections covering Associates, Certificates and
Diplom.%sand CO1lage/University/Polytechnic Associates, College/lmiversity/
Polytechn~Certif icatea and College/fJniveraity/PolfiechnicDiplomss. The main
difference is that the prefix ‘college, University or Polytechnic- shows that it
ia sn awsrd of a specific college, university or ~lytechnic snd the omission of
the prefix shows that it is a general award.
Sabetimas there is a difference in status bstwsen a college Diploms and the
Diplma of a college, but this is not irr?arisbly so snd depsnds on the college.
The details on the schedule will not always state the correct title of the
awsrd, therefore essmine both titles pesaibilities ag,
College Diplom - Librarianship - Leeds Polytechnic.
i. Look up Leeds polytechnic on the P indsx and find the section on
‘College Diplcmas’.
ii. Thsre is no college diplana in Librarianship.
iii. Find the subject ‘Librarianehip’ in the section ‘Dipl~aS’ which precedes
the section ‘CollegeDiplumss’.
iv. l%e qualification code is 24S, which converts to GHS code 22.
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