There are no entry requirements, the courses will not result in a qualification and completion does not count towards future university entrance.
The University of Glasgow will also reassess other properties on the Gilmorehill campus to ensure they fit with the demands of future university education.
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.
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.
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 BBC's Political Correspondent Ross Hawkins said government sources suggested no final decision had been made on a future model for university funding and that ministers would not respond to the Browne review until after the comprehensive spending review on 20 October.
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.
Many parents think it's important to save for their child's future, whether for university or for a deposit for their first home.
During the survey we answered questions about important issues that affect us as individuals, like things that scare or worry us and our personal thoughts about the future like going to university or college.
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"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.
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.
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, " ...
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.
The Fed has "removed the last shred of possibility that interest rates were going to revert to normal in the near future, " says Johns Hopkins University economics professor Christopher Carroll.
He is also Nanotechnology Track Faculty at Singularity University where he discusses the future of ubiquitous small machines.
That shifts the debate back to two big questions: what is university for and what shape should university education take in the future?
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She went from Wausau to Stanford University, thinking that her future was in medicine.
From there he went to Cardiff University, where he met his future wife Glenys, now a Labour MEP.
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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In 1988 he got a degree in computer science at Tufts University--and met his future wife, Pamela, who came from Hawaii to get a degree in biology.
Mr Byrne said young people were being hit by a "triple whammy" as the government scrapped Education Maintenance Allowances (EMAs), increased university tuition fees and abolished the Future Jobs Fund - which Labour say would have created 200, 000 jobs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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