To compensate for this, he described a plan for 10, 000 Chinese students to train at U.S. universities to learn the basics of innovative thinking (and open Chinese universities to a like number of Americans).
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And many universities are going to open in India, like the U.S. universities and colleges.
The important thing, Mr Clarke opined, was to make sure that universities were open to academically able young people from all backgrounds.
So, I have worked very hard to open the doors of universities to more people, to make sure that the cost of the education is not a bar to people going.
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Open Access experts from universities, specialized non-governmental organizations, UN agencies and publishing houses will gather together to deliberate on the strategy, present the global trends in OA and identify opportunities to improve access to peer-reviewed research information to all.
Through these efforts CORE strives to realize the true open sharing of resources among universities at a global level.
This will open new opportunities for our universities and laboratories, and create human capital to meet the global needs of the future.
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Student groups sponsor the displays as a way of demonstrating that universities need not fear open expression.
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For instance, many American universities are providing free open courses online with Coursera, Academic Earth or their own platforms.
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"If you decide not to choose some of the facilitating subjects at advanced level, many degrees at competitive universities will not be open to you, " it adds.
On April 2011, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is one of the latest universities to launch an open-access repository with Open Repository, based on DSpace technology.
Goodgenes.com is open only to graduates of Ivy League universities and a handful of other superior colleges.
The government argues that higher tuition fees are needed to fund an expansion of universities so higher education is open to more people.
Dutch universities have been offered subsidies to open theological departments to train Muslim prayer-leaders.
China Open Resources for Education is a consortium of universities that began with 26 International Engineering Technology (IET) Educational Foundation member universities and 44 China Radio and TV universities.
Finally, there are open-access archives, where organisations such as universities or international laboratories support institutional repositories.
These fellowships, tenable in a selected number of universities in the Czech Republic, are open to secondary school leavers holding a recognized certificate.
The movement of "Massive Open Online Courses, " which began with elite universities making their courses available online to the masses, is rapidly moving into the trenches of public higher education.
In 2007, a study conducted by Jawhraa Abdul Rahaman, to explore the contentment of academics in universities in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia towards open Access publishing - 63.4% of the total participants in the study showed their desire to have their scientific publications available for free access on the Internet in future, compared with 22.4% reported that they do not support the idea.
The company is also helping some technical universities develop a curriculum based in part on open technologies that could benefit IBM down the road.
The initial target market is for music students at NYU and the group plans to expand to students at universities from there, eventually making the site open to the public, Williams said.
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With the exception of scoreboards for large universities, such projects are rarely subject to open bidding and thus tend to be more profitable, offering a 40% gross margin, against a typical 30% for pro-team jobs.
With the rise of free Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) from the top universities in the world, we are seeing just how even if school leaders or policymakers are slow to grant students meaningful and affordable educational choices, students can avail themselves of a myriad of educational choices anyway.
It was one of eight universities that worked with IBM during 20111 on developing the open architecture that let researchers collaborate on the question-answer capabilities that help to power Watson.
The Platform was developed with a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) framework by the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa within the Africa Virtual Open Initiatives and Resources (AVOIR) Consortium comprising of 11 African universities.
Colleges and universities are rushing to offer free online classes known as "massive open online courses, " or MOOCs.
Martin Bean, the Open University's vice-chancellor, said that the arrival of online courses meant that UK universities could either "stick their heads in the sand" or rise to the international challenge.
Universities and business schools in the region are responding to the challenge by extending their offerings in open and customized executive education courses.
Teacher training places are provided at eight universities - Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling, Strathclyde, West of Scotland and the Open University.
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