For most of the 40, 000 people working on this tree-lined campus - and yes, it does feel like a university - are engineers with a degree or often a Master's.
It could transform the relationship between students and university staff - and it raises wider questions about whether students are equipped to be savvy consumers in a price-sensitive market.
In 2010, it opened a social-media university where employees learn the basics of social media communication.
It is hoped the e-university will meet the challenge of US universities like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Stanford in California, which offer virtual degrees.
There's instructions to help build your own Iridis-Pi at the source link, and the best part is that it won't require a university-level budget to run.
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When it comes to student-generated opinions, it is problematic to think a university provides a uniform experience for all of its students.
What distinguishes an I-Corps start-up from a typical university spin-out is the way it forces researchers to stop fixating on the technology they have developed.
But not just university players - it considers local clubs and schools important too.
There are ubuntu education funds, ubuntu tents at development conferences, ubuntu villages, an ubuntu university - and it's now the name of an open-source operating system.
In an ultra-conservative state where half the population goes to church every week and there are twice as many guns as people, Austin is an outcrop of pink hair amid the rednecks - an easy-living university town where intellectual slackers, pregnant punks and IT millionaires co-exist in harmony.
Creative writing courses have expanded at university level - and it is now going to be offered at A-level.
Founded last year by a pair of 29-year-old fraternity buddies from the University of Texas, it has created easily downloadable software to let Web shoppers make a last-minute price check of dozens of sites just when they are about to make a purchase.
Founded last year by a pair of 29-year-old fraternity buddies from the University of Texas, it has created easily downloadable software to enable Web shoppers to make a last-minute price check of dozens of sites when they are about to make a purchase.
Emory University School of Law said it "will accept 40 students" from two Louisiana universities -- Loyola University New Orleans and Tulane University.
The UK Border Agency said it took the action because the university was not making proper checks on its overseas students - that it did not keep records of whether they had the required standard of English to be given a student visa or whether they were attending lectures.
It allows the degree-awarding powers of a university to combine with the local reach of further education colleges.
In 2014 it will open the first American-style research university campus in China.
Dubbed "Parivartan, " which means "change" in Hindi, it is equivalent to a Coca-Cola-University-on-Wheels.
Leave it to Catacosinos, a New York University-educated economist who made his first fortune in electronics, to spy the opportunity.
Knoxville, Tennessee (CNN) -- The University of Tennessee says it has suspended a fraternity chapter indefinitely and may refocus its alcohol education programs after police said a student was hospitalized following a weekend incident involving alcohol enemas.
An all-male Cambridge University drinking society has cancelled its annual female-only jelly wrestling contest after it was labelled sexist.
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It also presents evidence that part-time working at university is harming academic performance.
Olaseni Lewis, known as Seni, was a 23-year-old IT graduate with a degree from Kingston University who had planned to undertake postgraduate study.
The university said it had tolerated the sit-in because there had been no undue disruption but it had become increasingly concerned about the attitude of the occupiers.
At private not-for-profit Heritage University in Washington, it is worse no Pell Grant recipients make it through in four years, and probably well under 15 percent in six years.
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.
What it lacks is strong links with a world-class university, and a powerful network of people with a track record in both science and business, willing to pass on lessons to new companies.
My second school, I got wait-listed, and my third school, I got put into - at the University of Texas, it's called the coordinated application program where you go to a satellite school for a year, and then you transfer in.
In just three weeks this fall, thousands of people playing the free downloadable game helped map the structure of an enzyme that could fight HIV and AIDS. Scientists at the University of Washington created Fold-it to turn research about protein folding into a game, dishing up puzzles made up of spirals and clumps that represent amino acids.
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The idea has proved effective in some rich-world grain silos, but Tanya Stathers, of Greenwich University in England, wanted to see if it would work in the smaller-scale and rather different conditions of storage found in the tropics.
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