To find top students, Swaniker hired five scouts to visit high schools across Africa.
Every summer, SU selects 80 top students from around the world to join the GSP class.
But a larger stage brings with it more competition, particularly for top students and star faculty.
Only the top students at the best universities could get a spot in competitive teaching programs.
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One dinner honored top students from the Fashion Institute of New Orleans.
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In addition, the foundation provides bikes to graduating sixth-graders and the top students in the fourth and fifth grades.
For universities competing to attract top students, it's no longer enough to have a glossy brochure and a sleek website.
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This is particularly critical given the growing student debt crisis, which may make public institutions even more attractive to top students.
Competitive schools, large and small, pour funds into financial aid and travel the world to identify and attract top students.
The changes also meant top students faced an even slimmer chance of getting a seat in a citywide program, adding to the pressure.
Two-thirds of students at four-year colleges attend state schools, and a growing number of public colleges offer fine honors programs for top students.
Sir Steve Smith says reforms allowing institutions to take on unlimited numbers of top students next year will create competition for the brightest.
The expectation is that these top students will return to China and be a part of the corporate and financial institution elites in the future.
This was an outfit that prided itself on hiring only the top students, and the company had had its eye on Romney from the beginning of his time in Cambridge.
In many former communist countries, particularly in Eastern Europe and Africa, governments offer a "dual-track" tuition policy, where tuition is provided free to the nation's top students but a fee is charged to everyone else.
Think of credit rating as a simple grading system where the top students perform the best on tests (making money) and those at the bottom are the biggest risk for dropping out of school (defaulting).
But if it means he has more money to pay students to drop out of Stanford, it remains to be seen how well Stanford will like employing a teacher who siphons off its top students before they earn their degree.
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In fact, of all the students taking Thrun's class globally and at Stanford, the top 410 students were online.
He ranked him as among the top five students he has ever had and said he couldn't agree more with his fiscal positions.
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He was a Mayfield Fellow at Stanford, an elite group of 12 top engineering students, who went to work at BCG following graduation.
The challenge is one of several that have been posted on MindSumo, a new website aimed at helping employers identify and recruit top college students.
Out of both regional and global competitions, the top 424 students (124 teams) across 70 countries made it to the Worldwide Finals, which took place last night in New York City.
Not only Chinese but also Korean and Japanese students came in the top 5 meanwhile American students did very badly.
In 1997, the Texas legislature instituted the Top Ten Percent Law granting students in the top ten percent of their class automatic admission to any state university.
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The new plan alters the ratios so that the top 9% of students from each high school would be guaranteed a spot, as well as students who rank in the top 9% of the state as a whole.
Doreen Lawrence says black students are less likely to get top degrees than white students and that qualifications do not protect against racism.
Moreover, in an attempt to attract the brightest students, the university offers free tuition to the top 3% of students.
One teacher told KFOR she lay on top of six students in the bathroom.
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The top-notch students in Beijing, Shanghai and other business centres are the most confident.
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