• Noting the difficulties experienced by secondary school pupils in getting to university, Mr Lyttle called for a compromise to be reached over post-primary transfer, with the transfer age rising to 14.

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  • After they were married in 1968, she followed him to Cornell University in upstate New York for his studies, and he urged her to pursue her dream of getting a university degree.

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  • Its target of getting half of all young people to university by 2010 was missed, but not by a mile.

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  • They are gaining qualifications, going to college and university, getting jobs and becoming active members of society.

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  • The experience was very similar to getting an MBA from the best global university in the world. 250 of us, from 60 different countries, gathered for the common purpose of economic progress based on mutual interest and mutual respect.

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  • He said greater attention should be paid to getting more young people from less privileged backgrounds into university.

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  • The South Florida native tried out investment banking with Merrill Lynch after getting a business degree from Emory University, then quit to found a sneaker store at the Hard Rock Casino in Seminole, Florida.

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  • They know that though the system has been a success over recent years in expanding, it hasn't been a success in getting young people from poorer backgrounds to be able to go to university and they know they've got to do that.

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  • John Buckingham was a 21-year-old senior at the University of Southern California, on his way to getting a bachelor's degree in computer science with a minor in business, when he started working with legendary value investor Al Frank .

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  • People who live in institutions, such as a university, school or hospital, are particularly prone to getting any new strain that is circulating.

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  • After getting a doctorate in psychology from Loyola University in 1971, Linehan wanted to devote her career to helping the most miserable people in the world.

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  • "Here I was doing all the advertising and legwork to get fans into the arena, and Boston University was getting all of the revenues from parking and concessions, " he says.

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  • Indeed, securing angel funding can be difficult just 5% of start-ups seeking angel funding succeed at getting it, according to John Paglia, associate professor of finance at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif.

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  • Amaechi, a former England centre, was born in Boston in the United States and raised in Stockport, before moving to Ohio as a teenager and getting a basketball scholarship at Penn State University.

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  • University president Robert Barchi's job appeared to be safe after getting a public nod of support from the school's board of governors.

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  • But he decided not to stay in that business, instead getting a degree in science from a Malaysian university and then an M.

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  • New research out of The University of Michigan School of Public Health says to increase the odds of getting hitched, start by taking a look at the gender dynamics of your area.

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  • After getting a degree in that field at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut, Mr. Kane went to work for a design studio in New York.

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  • Fewer than 0.3% of students getting places used the system allowing those who surpass their expected exam results to "trade up" to another university.

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  • Sidney Smith, a cardiologist at the University of North Carolina, says doctors need money to do trials examining different ways of getting patients to take medicines that will help them.

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  • "The present study underscores how poorly we as clinicians are getting through to parents, " says Dr. Anjali Jain, an assistant professor of pediatrics at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, in Washington, D.

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  • In a settlement announced Wednesday by the National Women's Law Center, the university agreed to send a memo to all professors and administrators reminding them that all schools getting government funding are required to give pregnant students the same options to make up work that they give to pupils who suffer illnesses or injuries that cause them to miss classes.

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  • In a settlement agreement announced Wednesday by the National Women's Law Center, the university agreed to send a memo to all professors and administrators reminding them that all schools getting government funding are required to give pregnant students the same options to make up work that they give to pupils who suffer illnesses or injuries that cause them to miss classes.

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  • "People should be getting nutrition from real foods, not from foods that are artificially modified to give supposed health benefits, " says University of Wisconsin cardiologist James Stein.

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  • Understanding sex differences is important to getting the right diagnosis and treatment, said Christopher Gillberg, a child and adolescent psychiatry professor at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.

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  • People who have been thinking about getting a seasonal flu shot ought to act now, said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.

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  • Attorneys for Holmes, a 25-year-old former neuroscience graduate student at a nearby university, are expected to seek a "diminished capacity" defense that could prevent the case from getting that far.

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  • Markman, a psychologist at the University of Denver and co-author of 12 Hours to a Great Marriage, speculates that since getting married is so much fun, male celebrities simply like to do it more than once.

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