HEMPSTEAD, New York (CNN) -- Frank Sinatra's life is apparently worthy of study by academic elite.

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Like an elite academic institution, the SVSC has strict, performance-based admissions criteria.

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Yet its rapid uptake since 1994, when access to the Internet first spread beyond China's elite academic and scientific circles, suggests demand will be huge.

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The online internship database, Internships.com, conducted a survey which revealed that employers prefer internship candidates with relevant experience, over a candidate with a high academic performance at an elite school.

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But Keynes then, and Soros now, believed that principles tried and proven and received gratefully from the loving hands of past generations were to be replaced by an elite of academic planners.

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We do need world class academic research being done, and that is done by an elite.

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Elite universities offering MOOCs have a major financial incentive to limit academic credit only to registered, paying students and not those following along free online.

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Mr. SNYDER: Much of the poetry in the mid-'50s was in a kind of neoformalist and academic mode that was very tame and highly intellectual and spoke to a small and elite audience.

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Recent cheating scandals, at Harvard University and elite Manhattan public high school Stuyvesant, have brought new attention to the increasingly grey area of academic integrity.

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