The golf course business has been in a tailspin the past five years as the market for second homes on golf courses collapsed with the recession taking courses down with them (see graphic below).
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Few of the consulting companies offer introductory courses online making it even more accessible, but I recommend taking the hands-on courses face-to-face with other participants to make the learning experience real life and pertinent to your current business environment.
As long as overall numbers stay within planned levels, it may well turn a blind eye to universities that decide to increase student numbers taking the most popular courses.
Now, in the best theatrical tradition, he is taking the show on the road, leading courses over successive days later this month in Dubai, London and Paris, part of the school's Global Leadership Series.
Then came the abuse allegations, as well as questions whether the online courses the players were taking would pass NCAA muster.
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The vocational courses they are taking have limited value in the jobs market.
He added that reducing the number of cameras might also lead to a fall in the numbers of motorists taking speed awareness courses "that help them to avoid speeding in the future".
For each of the 30, 000 students on campus, another 10 are virtual students taking part in the free Massive Open Online Courses called MOOCs.
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As shown in Figure 9, enrollment in AP courses and the taking of such exams essentially doubled between 1991 and 1999.
He speaks with enthusiasm for the project - and says the courses he is taking have to be better "than sitting there with a can in my hand".
Joe Morton, the state superintendent of schools, points to the number of black students taking AP courses.
Kingsbarn will play host to the first day's play, with Carnoustie and St Andrews the other two courses being used again, with Sunday's final round taking place at the latter.
According to an International Data Corp. study, the number of college students taking distance learning courses will triple to 2.2 million by 2002, or 15 percent of all higher education students.
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In August the first 21 Russian students will start taking courses (they will spend their first year studying abroad).
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Haggis was spending much of his time and money taking advanced courses and being audited, which involved the use of an electropsychometer, or E-Meter.
However, your darling liberal arts major can pursue any major and also prepare for the work place by taking just five or six courses.
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His Ten Less-Basic Principles of Economics should save countless students the agony of taking numbers-and-graph-laden economics courses.
Many courses would involve more job-related studies, taking the place of existing qualifications like Higher National Diplomas.
Davidds reports that within six months of taking top-flight negotiation courses, less than 40% of the women were using the skills they learned, compared to 98% of their male counterparts.
Skillshare helps amateur teachers find classroom space, register students and collect payment for in-person courses, taking a 15% cut of student fees in the process.
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The composition of course taking within a specific vocational curriculum also shifted away from courses that were part of an organized sequence and toward specialty courses within various fields.
State licensing laws mindlessly emphasize time spent -- usually years -- taking teacher-education courses, yet there is little correlation between certification requirements and effectiveness in the classroom.
The academy began as a pilot scheme last summer, with 100 children taking part in summer courses after 520 applications - more than double those so far this year - were received.
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In a world where even many on-campus students are already taking online courses, often from other institutions and transferring them, Thursday's announcements further blur the distinctions not just within universities but between them.
Almost 4, 000 courses are currently included and the proportion of 16- to 19-year-olds taking at least one of them has risen from 30% in 2008 to 48% in 2012.
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