Absent better state secondary schools, universities may have to take radical measures: Cambridge is considering a foundation year for students who show potential but are ill prepared.
Mr Milburn's report, which is published on Thursday, also calls for a foundation year programme in all universities, where less advantaged youngsters will have the opportunity to catch up with their peers.
The San Francisco AIDS Foundation last year gave away more than two million free needles.
To measure tolerance, the California-based Asia Foundation last year surveyed Thais about their views.
He set up the Skoll Foundation a year after eBay went public.
In the federal government's successful prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation last year on terrorism financing conspiracy charges, the U.S. Attorney's office introduced into evidence an internal Brotherhood strategy memorandum that included an attached list of groups which were identified as "associated or friendly" organizations.
Achieving top holes this year certainly sets a strong foundation for next year.
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We finished sixth and reached the play-offs which gave us a good foundation for this year to get started again.
In association with UNESCO and other outstanding partners, the Goi Peace Foundation organizes every year the Essay Contest for Young People.
According to an article published by the Kauffman Foundation earlier last year, women only make up 35% of startup business owners.
Under the government's 'Modernising Medical Careers' reforms there are now just two training phases - a two-year foundation programme followed by a specialist training programme.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation reported this year that participation by women has increased both in target shooting (46.5%) and hunting (36.6%) over the past decade.
It has also agreed not to close any branches and instead to increase their number "as the business' growth allows", and support Northern Rock's charitable foundation for a year.
Nor has he shied away from crossover between his mayoral administration and his foundation: Last year, he earned a reproach from good-government types for appointing Patricia Harris, his former deputy mayor, as CEO of his charity.
In another development, university students are now able to take two-year "foundation" degrees in vocational subjects.
It has been specially commissioned to mark the start of the foundation's centenary year.
Alex O'Brian has been with the foundation since earlier this year, and gave some hints as to what his team are working on.
We then applied the annual ratios to grants paid toward education and global health as reported by the foundation in the appropriate year.
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Other recent data does not help: recent retail sales confidence data from the Getulio Vargas Foundation has shown sequential year-over-year drops in March.
When John Bissell arrived at the government-owned Central Cottage Industries Corp. in New Delhi on a two year Ford Foundation fellowship in 1958, Bimla Nanda, who was working there, had to give up her desk to accommodate the American visitor.
The federal project joins efforts by groups such as Project Budburst, which has collected seasonal data from more than 15, 000 volunteers across the country, and an educational project called Journey North, funded by the Annenberg Foundation, which every year mobilizes students in some 6, 000 schools to report sightings of migrating birds, butterflies and flowering plants.
Since 2004, when doping allegations against Armstrong first came to light in a book by French sports journalist Pierre Ballester, the foundation has experienced steady year-to-year revenue growth, according to financial records, with the exception of a dip from 2005 to 2006, the year Armstrong was cleared of allegations stemming from a 1999 drug test.
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Less than a year old, the restaurant was recently nominated by the James Beard Foundation for Best Restaurant of the Year.
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During the school year, the foundation's grants provide money help transport children to pools for lessons.
Calo received a grant from the Rose Foundation to start WhatApp last year.
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The acquisition of Epsom Hospital by Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was halted last year.
When I got to the office, my face was scrutinized by my co-workers with the intensity of an appraiser checking the foundation of a 150-year-old house.
Ominously, the Turkish Human Rights Foundation says that, this year alone, over 30 people have been killed in alleged police violence, mostly in the Kurdish region.
Ms. Stavney's work as a master teacher is informed by a three-year project our foundation funded to better understand how to build an evaluation and feedback system for educators.
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