In the custom executive education sphere, Duke University's Duke Corporate Education, IMD of Switzerland and London Business School are ranked highly by the FT.

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A.s and diminished corporate interest in open-enrollment programs for executives, can ill afford to lose money from custom executive-education programs, which can bring in tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

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Moreover, custom-built apps for therapy and science education are cropping up, with the existing prototype utilizing a trio of force-sensitive resistors that measure pressure and convert it into a signal that instructs the tablet.

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The competition for 14 to 18-year-olds, with funding from the Department for Education, wants to bring back the custom of pupils memorising and reciting poems.

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Instruction materials such as booklets, audio-visual materials, educational music CDs, magazines and posters have been custom designed and professionally produced by the Curitiba Departments of Education (Youth and Adult Education sector) and Health (Health Education Centre).

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In the United States, Northwestern University's Kellogg and Duke University's Duke Corporate Education are also among the leaders in "open" and "custom" programs devised for the specific needs of companies.

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Throughout the institute's 25-year history (we are a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to scientific research, education and public outreach), we have analyzed these raw data with custom algorithms operating on semi-custom hardware.

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