Mature students should not have to pay tuition fees. _______________, it could be argued that they would have an unfair advantage if they were given loans which they were not required to repay.

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As suggested in Chapter 1 students now have a much wider range of choices when entering higher education. ________________investigate, therefore, what influenced their choices.

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____________ most of the rest of the United Kingdom, Scotland has benefited from having universities in its main centres of population for several centuries.

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The pilots rushed their approach. They entered the final approach flying at 80 knots above final approach speed, and without clearance from the tower. _______________, the pilots flew an incorrect course and crashed.

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Western coal, for instance, is low in sulfur since it contains less than 1 percent. ________________, the districts in the east produce coal ranging from 2 to 4 percent sulfur.

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In our view, _________________ safeguard universities' power to award degrees.

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Only one in fifteen Scottish students had moved outside their region to attend a higher-education institution. _________________ Scottish universities or colleges were populated nearly exclusively by people who had lived in the region.

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