And, in 1985, National Technological University became the first school to offer online degree courses via satellite transmission.

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For advice, I asked members of the World Entrepreneurship Forum, one of the most influential global networks of business owners, social entrepreneurs and industry experts created by KPMG and the EM Lyon Business School, along with Nanyang Technological University, Zhejiang University, Only Lyon and Action Community for Entrepreneurship for in 2008.

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In a less empirical, less technological, more insular world, the brand of school one attended did matter in networking, in gaining employment, and in negotiating a reasonable starting salary.

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Organized in partnership with ISESCO, the Moroccan Ministry of Education, the engineering School of Mines Albi-Carmaux and the French Technological University of Compiegne, the workshop will be conducted in a form of action-training, and the participants will work on their own pedagogical materials with the objective to transpose them to the editorial chain.

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Anthony Askew, a student at the School of Law, came in to the competition with no technological background.

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