There's been "a constant stream of requests" for this year's NCEA (National Council for Educational Awards) Directory of Approved Courses in Higher Education. Every guidance counsellor in the State has already been sent a copy; further free copies are available from the NCEA, 26 Mountjoy Square, Dublin 1. Ninety new courses have been approved for inclusion in this year's publication, the 16th edition, bringing the total to 760. It's "a remarkable testimony to the thriving state of higher education in a wide range of institutions, outside the university system, which are represented in these pages," writes acting director Seamus Puirseil in the preface.