Colorado State is the first U.S. school to offer credit for a Udacity MOOC, but several universities in Germany and Austria already do.
But in recent years universities have been urged to make offers of places based on an assessment of a student's potential - not just their raw grades.
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At the top end, Stanford, which is a private university, and Berkeley, which is not, continue to produce fine students, but enrolment in public universities and colleges has been declining in the past few years.
That may cover cheap courses in bad universities, but will not pay for expensive teaching in good ones.
This opportunity is currently overlooked in our culture, but colleges and universities can play a big role in changing that.
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But matters are worse in universities, where patronage, cronyism and secure tenure are the rule.
But in recent decades the universities have performed a sort of conjuring trick.
Guerrillas inspired by al-Qaeda may fight on in the wilds of Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen and Algeria, but in the slums and universities that once supplied fodder for jihad, fashions are trending elsewhere.
Those figures point to a considerable fall in the number of pupils from Wales applying to university in 2013 - not pupils applying to universities in Wales but Welsh pupils applying to study at university.
Davies said that there was "mounting evidence" of the economic benefit research programmes can have in terms of attracting multi-national companies, but conceded that Welsh universities, in this sense, had "been slow in making this happen".
Such gifts, whether to a university in general or a business school, are a common part of alumni life in the United States, but far less so in Europe, where universities have traditionally been state funded.
"I have every sympathy - it's very difficult for the students and teachers who are caught up in it, but until universities know what the results are like they are being cautious, " said one of the project leaders, Dr Ann Hodgson.
The "seismic shifts" in population will have a "noticeable effect on day-to-day life in the city", but universities' influence cannot be "consistently predictable and positive", she told a conference run by Universities UK in London.
But the scale of its recruitment in universities and Islamic boarding schools is unclear.
Harvard still gained the top spot, but the number of British universities in the top 20 rose to twice that of the Jiao Tong rankings.
But these cuts would put universities in England under severe pressure.
Of course all lecturers would welcome the call for better academic salaries, but better pay was needed in all universities - as the select committee and even the prime minister had recognised.
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But in order for that to happen theoretical scientists in their laboratories and universities have themselves to be prepared to acknowledge the importance of engineers, inventors and technicians of all kinds, so that their achievements are celebrated as they deserve, and their names trip as easily off our tongues as those of Einstein and Newton.
Mr Sheerman said "genuine debate" continued in government, but most MPs realised somebody had to pay for expansion and excellence in universities.
The U.S. retains its core strengths in entrepreneurship, innovation, great universities, and others, but we have allowed serious weaknesses to emerge in multiple areas: skills, physical infrastructure, unnecessary costly regulations and a costly legal system, and high business costs in areas like corporate taxes and health care.
But applications from people in Scotland to English universities are down by almost 800 - a drop of 16.4%.
But applications from people in Scotland to English universities were down by almost 800 - a drop of 16.4%.
Many scientists liked Mr Caputo's plan in principle, but worried that the universities would prove too disorganised to run things properly.
The society welcomes an assurance from Education Minister Leighton Andrews that he will not interfere in what universities teach, but says the legislation should protect the sector's autonomy.
But first he wants to replace the current centralised but arbitrary arrangements for funding federal universities with a British-style system, in which each manages its own finances but is funded according to a standard formula tied to the number of students on each type of course.
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For a subject such as economics, applicants might have an A grade in A-level economics, but some universities might also require pupils to have a high grade at maths A-level as well.
But faculty members of other universities offering training in journalism will also benefit from the project through training and networking activities and through the setting-up of the national journalism education resource centre.
Our universities claim to train teachers, but in reality many people find themselves overwhelmed by reality once inside a K-12 classroom.
Both universities, respected in England, but not world-famous, have decided that risk is worth taking in the hope of boosting their global profile.
The hope: to create more jobs in Philadelphia, a city with 18 universities but too few startups.
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