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Premji told Forbes about his plans for a world-class university with a large endowment during an interview in London earlier this year.
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The government says England's "world-class university sector" has responded well to its reforms, but that it will continue to monitor their effect on demand from mature and part-time students.
BBC: Education & Family
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What it lacks is strong links with a world-class university, and a powerful network of people with a track record in both science and business, willing to pass on lessons to new companies.
BBC: Start-up Britain - Cambridge v Tech City
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Among them is Prof Elizabeth Fisher, a world class neuroscientist at University College London.
BBC: Report calls on government to back open access science
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Creating a world-class modern university needs flexibility in hiring, promotion and pay rather than the rigid rules that are traditional in the region.
ECONOMIST: Universities in Latin America
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But what always impresses me about Cambridge is the sense that all kinds of bridges are now being built between world-class science in the university and the commercial world.
BBC: Zoe �C Cambridge��s emotional talking head
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To win a place, pupils can sit a purpose-designed World Class Test or US pre-university exams.
BBC: Bringing on the brightest
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According to the Royal Society, research that has been assessed as world class attracts around 90% of university science funding.
BBC: Viewpoint: Science 'critical for UK economic future'
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While Pittsburgh produces plenty of skilled graduates--some of whom have traveled from as far as India and China to attend the city's world-class colleges, including Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh--the job market, which today primarily consists of health care and technology positions, simply isn't big enough to provide work for all qualified candidates.
FORBES: Lifestyle
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The printed book was a much more powerful learning innovation, because it allowed students to get a good higher education at a university lacking rare manuscripts or world-class scholars.
FORBES: Q&A with Christensen and Eyring on their new book: "The Innovative University"
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With a critical mass of well-educated university students at three universities, Quebec is a great environment to attract world-class engineering talent.
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