However maximum fee grants and course grants for part-time courses that started before September 2012 will be increased by 1% in 2014-15, according to the statement.

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Casting around for a part-time work option, she learned about a course for people who wanted to import goods from Ecuador.

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"In October 2009, I completed the course and started guiding part-time till the World Cup came, where I was kept quite busy, " the entrepreneur remembers.

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"T" had been CRB checked when he applied for a part-time job at a local football club aged 17 and later for a university course in sports studies.

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Since completing his course of chemotherapy in December he has returned to school on a part-time basis.

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Crocodile-tagging safaris, where researchers measure and label the crocs as part of a monitoring program, are night-time affairs, taken after a candlelit three-course meal of delicious reef fish washed down with chilled Chilean sauvignon blanc.

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Meanwhile, Saint Louis University's part-time program launched a micro-scholarship program last year: Students can apply to have the cost of one course remitted by the school so they can stay enrolled.

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