Coming after decades of steady growth, these figures sent shock waves through the academic system.
Many of them are put off by the way the academic promotion system works, explains Lotte Bailyn, a professor at MIT Sloan School of Management.
He fell foul of the law again in 2011, after attaching a laptop computer inside the MIT network (easily achieved as, although not a member of MIT, he was, at 24, already a grand old man of computing) and downloading around 4 million journal articles from JSTOR, the access-protected academic document storage system.
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"The current system of academic selection at age 11 has contributed to what is in fact a mediocre performance of the school system in Northern Ireland by international standards, " the statement added.
It's a question that one academic grouping, the Earth System Governance Project, has spent a decade researching.
Two main initiatives are National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System ( NARCIS): the national portal for those who are in search of information about researchers and their work and Data Archiving and Networked Services ( DANS) to provide access to datasets by developing data infrastructures in organisations.
Unicef suggests this "may be the result of an emphasis on academic qualifications combined with a diverse system of vocational qualifications".
All chaplain candidates for the military and federal prison system must meet basic academic requirements, undergo a background check and then be endorsed by a group of that person's religion.
One major problem facing the school system is the low level of academic training of many teachers.
The Earth System Grid is part of another American academic initiative.
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No system can achieve both social engineering and academic excellence.
The questionnaire will be addressed to youth delegates of previous UNESCO Youth Fora, to young people and members of youth organizations, to National Commissions for UNESCO, to public authorities working on youth issues, to civil society organizations working on or with youth, to UN System entities working on youth, to academic partners, as well as to private sector entities that work on youth development and civic engagement issues.
More academic types railed against the madness of an international monetary system in which global imbalances are set to widen again and the pace of reserve accumulation is accelerating.
In particular Mr Green saw opportunities in the German vocational system for motivating teenagers who were losing interest in academic studies.
"We must maintain the same academic oversight and the same academic standards that have applied for decades in our residential delivery system when we employ online delivery, " she said.
Liberal Democrats had opposed the introduction of the English Baccalaureate Certificate, believing they would bring in a two-tier system, which would damage teenagers who were not academic enough to pass the new exams.
Is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system.
Baroness Finlay, a doctor and former president of the Royal Society of Medicine, highlighted the importance of research when treating patients, and asked how the government plans to preserve academic health partnerships in light of its proposals to reform the healthcare system in England.
Assuming that these new books are right (not a fully warranted assumption), and that many students are increasingly disengaged from the academic part of the college experience, it may be because the system has become too big and too heterogeneous to work equally well for all who are in it.
"What Lim said was what any MP in a parliamentary system would deem it his duty to raise, " says academic Chandra Muzaffar.
In a conference call with reporters, system president Joe DiPietro and Katie High, vice president for academic affairs and student success, indicated students could send faculty e-mails and those on-campus could approach faculty with questions.
For those that argue that the playoff system puts student-athletes at physical risks or impedes their academic progress because of increased playing time, this plan only adds 1 more game for 4 teams and 2 games for the national finalists.
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He now wants to create a documentary on the criminal justice system, informed by the experience of being arrested not as a famous academic, but as an unrecognized black man.
Defending the tenure system was Dr. Cary Nelson, an English professor at my own academic institution (the University of Illinois) and President of the American Association of University Professors.
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Conservationists hope that this system will let them gather data on animal behavior that could prove to be useful for academic purposes as well as boosting tourism activities.
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