The three-week summer schools are taking place at five venues this year - Warwick, Christchurch College Canterbury, Durham, Exeter, and York.

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Today, we can also announce the Gates Foundation is starting a new five-year initiative to raise community college graduation rates.

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But over the five-year period, the number of people studying full-time at college rose by 19%, to stand at 81, 373 last year.

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In 1995, the top five draft selections were four first-year college students and a student in his final year of high school.

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Ninety-five of the graduates said they planned to attend a 2-year or 4-year college, and 23 had earned college credit while at the GOAL Academy.

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For that, Tressel has a five-year cloud that makes him nearly unemployable as a comparably high profile college football coach (although I advocate that some school in need should hire him anyway).

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The event marks another college basketball property for the Barclays Center, which has also inked a five-year deal to host the Atlantic 10 Conference Tournament beginning in 2013.

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Manuel said his educational journey includes nearly 200 credits from five different schools, including a one-year stint straight out of high school playing basketball at Missouri Valley College in Marshall, Mo.

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Nowadays the average software-engineering qualification becomes obsolete in around five years, so a student fresh out of college may be more valuable to a company than a 40-year-old.

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