"Many would like to study in these fields but there are simply not enough places, " says Anan Itchayapruks, head of human resources development at the Petroleum Authority of Thailand (PTT).
Others worry that urban research could, just like other fields of study, start to put number-crunching ahead of other important questions.
For the programme and fields of study offered please refer to ANNEX II of the project document (PDF - 466 KB).
Differential tuition could work similarly to scholarships in terms of incentivizing students to choose certain fields of study, said Brewer, a labor economist who studies education policy.
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Regardless of the statistics, I, for one, am preparing my own adult children as they graduate college that regardless of their fields of study, they should hone their entrepreneurial skills.
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Fields cookies is like saying: A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine has shown that people who limit their athletic activities to curling and badminton are less likely to require knee operations than people who play contact sports.
Some mycologists believe studying fungi is just not glamorous enough for today's biology students, who want to pursue disciplines with words like "nuclear" and "molecular", in laboratories with expensive computers, rather than going to fields and woods collecting samples which you then study through a microscope.
But Lisa Watson of Monsanto cautioned that the Cornell study was conducted under laboratory conditions and may not accurately reflect Bt's impact in farm fields.
McDonald's declined to comment on the Hudson study, but when the company in September said it would begin posting calorie information nationwide, Jan Fields, then-president of McDonald's USA, said the company hadn't noticed a change in behavior in the cities that already required posted calorie counts.
Instead of developing a narrow specialization, they study, say, calligraphy (as Mr. Jobs famously did) or hang out with friends in different fields.
This theory was first aired a year ago following a small-scale study, and was ridiculed by the National Radiological Protection Board, the watchdog on health issues involving radiation and electromagnetic fields.
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