These new hybrid courses will be in more practical subjects, such as engineering, leisure and tourism, and social care.

ECONOMIST: Education

Progressive thinkers such as Piaget and Young have been squeezed out of the teacher-training curriculum, as first the Tories and now Labour have insisted that courses put more emphasis on practical teaching tips.

ECONOMIST: Plowden��s progress

In contrast, Business Week said, the lower-ranked undergraduate courses tended to still follow the older methods of having less business theory and more practical application.

CNN: Starting out young

Schools like Full Sail are quite common for new developers and extreme hobbyists to take courses in game creation, many gamers have begun to find more novel and somewhat more practical applications for their hobby, some of which may be helping to save lives.

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