It is trying to foster elite universities by encouraging them to compete for money.
Examples are Kloudless and VIRES. The campus has the most untapped talent pool in elite universities.
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The news comes as league tables reveal hundreds of schools failed to produce pupils suitable for elite universities.
Some of the cash earmarked for elite universities is being used to lure scholars back to the motherland.
Academics from the most elite universities and learning institutions write for us, too.
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Big, professional, autonomous, mostly independent and ferociously competitive: elite universities seem to offer all five important characteristics for saving lives.
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But it further entrenches incumbents as does the need for schools to show parents a track record of admission to elite universities.
Half hold advanced degrees in science or engineering, most from elite universities.
In 2005, that brand started targeting Chinese college students at elite universities.
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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.
He acknowledged this is a departure from his earlier career as a tenured professor in computer science at two elite universities: Carnegie-Mellon and Stanford universities.
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The elite universities after the war opened to minorities and women, not to mention Brooklyn College grads like himself then "it was all about merit, " he says.
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There are political scientists teaching at elite universities in the United States who are more than qualified to advise the State Department on sensitive diplomatic issues.
Think about the ways that Facebook initially bonded with undergraduates at elite universities, or the way Pinterest connected with Midwestern moms who wanted a digital equivalent of scrapbooking.
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Many have noted the increasing stratification of American society and that, unlike in decades past, entry into its top levels now depends largely on graduation from elite universities.
The UVA situation illustrated the challenges that major elite universities are having in dealing with a new world in which students can earn even advanced degrees in their pajamas.
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The movement of "Massive Open Online Courses, " which began with elite universities making their courses available online to the masses, is rapidly moving into the trenches of public higher education.
Whether it will succeed in burnishing the cultural image of teaching once the economy has recovered, and students at elite universities are once again enticed by the high pay offered elsewhere, seems less likely.
Even elite universities are experimenting with the approach.
But elite universities are becoming more socially exclusive.
What is the future of our democracy when the sons and daughters of the janitors at our elite universities are far more likely to be put in harm's way than are any of the students whose dorms their parents clean?
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As Dan Seligman noted in this magazine a while back, citing research by economist Alan Krueger and others, the higher income of people who attend elite universities is due more to their innate abilities than to the courses they take.
It would be a country where the American dream largely was reserved for the graduates of elite universities, those with great political skills and whose families have the right connections, Hollywood stars and star athletes, and an occasional winner of the lottery.
These people are not only rich but also exceptionally clever, because America has become expert at sending its brightest to the same elite universities, where they intermarry and confer on their offspring not just wealth but also a cognitive advantage that gives this class terrific staying power.
However, elite American universities are still strongest with Harvard top for ten subjects and Massachusetts Institute of Technology top for seven.
It has contributed both to the vast number of Koreans attending elite American universities, and to the country's consistently strong economic performance.
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But while it is true that attendance at elite American universities is farther out of reach for lower-income students, it is certainly not the case that a college education is farther out of reach.
One of those opinions confirms the conventional wisdom that U.S. higher education, especially at our elite research universities, is world class while primary and secondary education, especially in our big city school systems, are lagging badly.
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Widespread corruption and the lavish lifestyles of officials who often drive luxury cars, own multiple villas and send their children to elite foreign universities have become the biggest sources of public anger at the ruling Communist Party.
In particular, elite colleges and universities have typically limited enrollment even as demand has increased.
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