Private and public budgets are busting to keep up with expenses driven by such factors as an ossified system of tenure-driven faculty appointments, outrageous research obligations even in the humanities and social sciences and gilded accommodations for the (ever longer) nesting students.
The mode of coordination and accountability needs to shift from hierarchical bureaucracy to dynamic linking, i.e. to a way of dynamically linking the education system to self-driven learning of the students.
Shadow universities and skills secretary David Willetts said he completely agreed with the government that a demand-led and employer-driven system was needed.
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Depending on the provider, they can select their schedules online in 30 minute bits, with the top performers getting first choice, creating a performance-driven system.
An app-driven system, the VueZone allows the home owner to record and play video snippets from a phone and receive alerts as email or text messages.
Language like this frightens those who see the NHS as a health-care system driven purely by response to need, rather than by hard calculation about cost.
The argument rests on anecdote, on the current failure, and on common sense, which says that a producer-driven system insulated from parents and children will fail.
What Segal, Zelt and other Canadian officials underscore is that their government-run system is driven by the value of the care and that the quantity of tests and procedures don't necessarily equal quality.
Triporati is not a purely software-driven system, though.
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The Mercedes-Benz S-Class has a computer-driven suspension system that reduces body roll as the vehicle whips around a corner.
Purdue scientists say their gravity-driven cooling system would keep working by itself, even if operators walked away during an accident.
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But it appears to be a catalyst-driven chemical system that releases both heat and gas in sufficient quantities to pump the wings up and down.
At the same time, greater emphasis on a demand-driven visa system would create new ways for workers to enter the U.S. who will be increasingly needed as baby boomers retire.
It is hierarchical bureaucracy that has created a test-driven education system that is hugely expensive yet is not equipping our young people for the world of continuous learning that lies ahead.
We also appreciated that most functions remain governed by standard switches, buttons and dials instead of an annoyingly complex menu-driven multimedia system of the sort that tends to hamper most upscale cars these days.
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You may favor a more consumer-driven type of system, or one that relies less on panels of experts.
Switzerland's consumer-driven health care system points the way: The Swiss have universal coverage, spend 40% less and enjoy an excellent, private health care system.
It also wants to build its own satellite-driven global-positioning system to rival America's, which everyone now uses.
We built Refugees United as a mobile-driven refugee family tracing system after meeting Mansour, a young Afghan refugee who had lost track of his entire family.
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If the car had a self-parking system, it could in theory be driven away by the hacker.
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Driven by a tri-amp system, the two 3-inch mid-range drivers constructed of super strong Kevlar, deliver true vocals and mid-tones with minimal distortion.
Because making this determination can take hours given that disability claims files often contain hundreds of pages (the VA has no department-wide electronic records system), claims processors are driven to render decisions without necessary medical information.
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It's driven some to search Google through a Bulletin Board System-like interface or, in the case of programmer Peter Nitsch, it's compelled him to graft ASCII art onto the physical world.
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Despite the large demand-driven market for home ownership, the required eco-system to fully serve the market is immature and MeXvi is contributing to its development by reaching out to financing institutions to make its product accessible and scalable.
And for Google, the most data-driven company in the world, having newspapers articles in its search system is no more than small cool stuff.
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Designed and tested over months of research by the industry's most performance focused engineering team, the Sub-Zero Liquid Chilled System is specifically designed for enthusiasts and hardcore gamers who are driven by the pursuit of more performance and power.
Millions of websites now employ social login, driven by the fact that the old site-specific registration and password system is no longer scalable.
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Like C-MAX Hybrid, C-MAX Energi has projected total system horsepower of 188 that stems from the combination of a gasoline engine and a battery-driven electric motor.
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For technology to advance, the legal and regulatory system will need to accept that driverless cars sound risky only compared with cars driven by error-prone humans.
Recognition was given to the fact that human activity had driven the planet into a new epoch, the Anthropocene, in which many Earth-system processes and the living fabric of ecosystems are now dominated by human activities.
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