The most promising new source of students may be from Chinese companies that are looking to expand globally and seeking to educate employees about Western markets.

WSJ: Western Business Schools Head to China

Already, 44, 000 university students from ASEAN countries study in the United States, the fourth largest source of university students studying here.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama at Working Lunch with ASEAN leaders

In the future, we hope that a global army of open-source code developers, students and other experts in digital signal processing, as well as citizen scientists willing to lend their intelligence to our exploration, will have access to the same technology and join our quest.

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Postgraduate courses have become an important source of income for universities, particularly from overseas students.

BBC: Fee rise 'must aid poor students'

Virtually all measures of academic achievement have shown substantial differences in the performance of African-American and white students in the United States, and these performance differentials have been a source of constant analysis and discussion.

UNESCO: II Part Analytic Section

Mehul Kar, a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, intends to apply to the accelerator as a funding source for CollegeDesis, his planned online portal for college students of South Asian descent.

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My web presence exploded in March 2008 when I became a writer for a legal blog called Above The Law, a popular news source for corporate attorneys and law students, professors and administrators, with hundreds of thousands of readers.

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But others, currently authorized through a local district but serving hundreds of students who come from other districts, use the establishment of a virtual charter school as a source of cash.

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