It knows that every battle provides a potential learning opportunity for making its soldiers better war fighters the next time around.

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Warwick Business School, on the other hand, insists on the same rigorous academic entry criteria for all its MBA programmes, whether distance learning, full- or part-time.

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Learning to separate the collider's signals from its noise will take time, Bird says.

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Its quick learning would be no problem for the lingual elite but at the same time no problem for any average individual with average lingual capabilities.

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The University of Phoenix, set up in 1989 to teach adults through a combination of old-fashioned distance learning and evening classes, is incorporating more and more e-learning into its courses, which are mostly taken by people with full-time jobs.

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