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467:. Mark published a book, 'LIPA – The First Ten Years in Pictures', to commemorate this anniversary. LIPA was recognized in 2006 as the first new higher education institution to have been started from scratch in living memory. As a performing arts HEI, LIPA is still attended by the highest number of international students in the UK.
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Trust, which completed the first phase of restoration in 2011 and aims to further refurbish this grand art deco theatre. He has been a judge for The
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