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The Access to Higher Education (HE) Diploma is a U.K. qualification which prepares students — usually 19+ [1] — for study as an undergraduate at university. The diploma is designed for people who would like to study in higher education but who left school without attaining a Level 3 qualification, such as A-Levels .
Learndirect was formerly owned by the Ufi Charitable Trust, a not-for-profit organisation which sold Learndirect and its parent Ufi Limited to LDC in 2011. [6] Ufi was created in 1998 to take forward HM Government's stated vision of a 'University for Industry' in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and launched Learndirect in 2000.
As well as managing the physical environment of the LRC, the LRC Manager is usually involved in editing LRC web pages and making contributions to the virtual learning environment, in order to provide access to quality and timely resources to colleagues and students. A key aspect of a Learning Resource Centre is the application of self study in ...
Information access is the freedom or ability to identify, obtain and make use of database or information effectively. [ 1 ] There are various research efforts in information access for which the objective is to simplify and make it more effective for human users to access and further process large and unwieldy amounts of data and information .
An open-access mandate is a policy adopted by a research institution, research funder, or government which requires or recommends researchers—usually university faculty or research staff and/or research grant recipients—to make their published, peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers open access (1) by self-archiving their final, peer-reviewed drafts in a freely accessible ...
Bloomsbury Academic have produced a series on issues in Brazil, [1] Egypt [2] and India; [3] while UCT Press have published an overview of the issues in Africa. [4] An academic overview of the issues can be found in 'Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property', published in 2010. [5]
Conditional access (CA) is a term commonly used in relation to software and to digital television systems. Conditional access is an evaluation to ensure the person who is seeking access to content is authorized to access the content. Access is managed by requiring certain criteria to be met before granting access to the content.
PDF is a standard for encoding documents in an "as printed" form that is portable between systems. However, the suitability of a PDF file for archival preservation depends on options chosen when the PDF is created: most notably, whether to embed the necessary fonts for rendering the document; whether to use encryption; and whether to preserve additional information from the original document ...