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While such specialist degrees are currently only offered by smaller, second-tier business schools, the larger players are watching their success with interest.
CNN: Degrees go for specialist redesign
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The new specialist degrees, however, have been designed from the ground up to be directly relevant to a particular business sector or industry.
CNN: Degrees go for specialist redesign
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Keen to ensure their academic offerings stand out in a competitive market, growing numbers of schools are redesigning their degrees around specialist areas.
CNN: Degrees go for specialist redesign
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Critics of the idea also point out that, unlike America, Britain already has a reasonably standardised exam system, which is designed to instil the sort of specialist knowledge that British undergraduate degrees tend to require.
ECONOMIST: Talent spotting
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Toby has two graduate degrees, in education and as a reading specialist, and works three days a week at a special-needs school in Chatham, New Jersey.
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