The coalition' s "Programme for Government" document says it will review Lord Browne' s review of higher education before making a decision on the future of university funding.
The danger of this happening will become acute on December 21st, when a Scottish businessman, Andrew Cubie, is due, at Mr Dewar's request, to publish a report about the future of university tuition fees, a subject which accident as much as design has elevated into a difference of high principle between Labour and the Lib Dems.
Professor Martin Price established the Centre for Mountain Studies (CMS) at UHI-Perth College (part of the future University of the Highlands and Islands) in 2000.
And he warned that the loss of income from overseas students "throws into jeopardy the future of the university".
It is the result of contributions by researchers at Resources for the Future, the University of Chicago, the National Institutes of Health, and Emory University, and was funded in part by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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The University of Glasgow will also reassess other properties on the Gilmorehill campus to ensure they fit with the demands of future university education.
"The fear of nuclear war has diminished partly because the risk has receded significantly with the end of the Cold War, " says Nick Bostrom, director of Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute.
But Dr Anders Sandberg, James Martin Research Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, said that while "the future looks pretty bright" there are "dark shadows" because technologies to improve the world also bring fears such as security worries over advances in sharing technology and bio-weapons coming out of bio-technology meant to feed us and bring us new sources of energy.
In an alleged e-mail dated February 26, 2001, Schultz writes to Curley that he assumes Curley's "got the ball" about a three-part plan to "talk with the subject asap regarding the future appropriate use of the University facility, " ...
Registration is now open for the Mountains of Our Future Earth conference due to take place at the University of the Highlands and Islands from 4 to 8 October.
Even the great American research universities that have come closest to creating the core-and-cloud university of the future find it difficult to define the core and to manage relations with the cloud.
Diana Liverman, co-Director of the Institute of the Environment at the University of Arizona and co-Chair of the Future Earth design team.
The University of Wales' future had come into question following Welsh government proposals to rationalise higher education.
The Crichton site in Dumfries faced an uncertain future three years ago when the University of Glasgow stopped undergraduate admissions.
However, perhaps the most imaginative advocate of the use of art in developing future business leaders is Nancy Adler, on the Desautels faculty of McGill University in Canada.
Alexander Mather of the University of Aberdeen predicted in 1992 that forest transition is the likely future of tropical countries, too.
He is also Nanotechnology Track Faculty at Singularity University where he discusses the future of ubiquitous small machines.
By Marc Goodman, Chair for Policy, Law and Ethics at Singularity University and Founder of the Future Crimes Institute.
She met her future husband in a puppetry class at the University of Maryland in the mid-1950s and the pair created the five-minute TV sketch show Sam and Friends, a precursor to the Muppets that featured an early incarnation of Kermit.
James Vaupel, director of Duke University's Population Research Institute, is sceptical of the argument that obesity may reverse future progress in life expectancy.
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University endowments are designed to benefit future generations of students whose educations will be financed by the endowments, directly or indirectly.
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An article by Business Civic Leadership Center showed that 65 percent of university students expect to make a difference in future jobs and 58 percent would agree to a 15 percent pay-cut to do so.
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Eight student political societies - including all the major parties - had invited undergraduate and postgraduate students to vote in what was billed as the first large-scale poll of Scottish university students on the country's future.
Glasgow University's event will be the first large-scale poll of what Scottish university students think about Scotland's future, based on that question.
And tech of that very sort could be trickling down into future generations of e-readers, thanks to current research by the University of Michigan.
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In 1997, I joined the faculty at the University of Florida and had the pleasure of educating future doctors and taking care of patients at the same time.
When Prince William opted to study at the University of St Andrews in 2001, finding a future queen may not have been at the front of his mind.
"Companies realize that building knowledge-based capabilities is critical for the future, " says Sue Todd, president of training consulting company Corporate University Xchange, whose clients include Caterpillar Inc.
And when the markets are up, a fund's returns don't necessarily tell you anything about how it will perform in the future, says Zheng Sun, a finance professor at the University of California, Irvine.
There still is a need for scientists and clinicians to speak a common language in order to carry out clinical research, and the role of the DSM in aiding this communication won't change in the near future, said Dianne Chambless, a psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania who studies anxiety treatment.
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