He suggested it would do nothing to increase the number of students going to university.
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This reduces the number of students showing up to office hours to bargain for better grades.
There has been a twelvefold increase in the number of students taking exams in religious education.
The number of students currently enrolled is 15m, or nearly 14% of the age group.
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In addition, the number of students in the 99th percentile nearly doubled from the initially reported scores.
The minister said there were plans to increase the number of students taking foundation degrees by 25%.
Studies show that the number of students taking Chinese in college increased 20 percent between 1998 and 2002.
It anticipates an overall drop in the number of students achieving good grades if the changes go ahead.
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There was also a big rise in the number of students from outside Scotland applying to Scottish universities.
She got the building working again, attracted teachers, and boosted the number of students from 30 to 330.
The number of students was up and we were projecting to come out of deficit in two years.
But the number of students who have yet to find a place is still greatly outnumbering the likely vacancies.
Not surprisingly, neither has increased the number of students going on to college.
The number of students from Scotland applying for university places has risen 2%.
In Poland, which deregulated universities in the 1990s, the number of students has risen from 500, 000 to over 2m.
Other data from Hesa showed the number of students graduating with first-class degrees had almost doubled in 10 years.
Mr Prabhakaran himself is said to set demanding standards for the number of students who must pass state exams.
Now, for some success seems to be measured by the number of students moved out of the public schools.
The decline in the number of students heading to law schools is profound.
Ministry of Education and Science data shows consistent increases in the number of students at four year universities since 1983.
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However, doctors have been in short supply mainly because of historic restrictions on the number of students entering medical schools.
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For the past 20 years, the state has set a cap on the number of students that each university can accept.
At the same time, the number of students enrolled in computer science classes has surged between 30% and 50%, professors said.
We simply cannot afford to fall behind other countries that are seeing a rise in the number of students and graduates.
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He said the number of students the district will be able to admit will depend on the grades for which they apply.
School districts need to maximize the number of students enrolled in each class and cannot afford to continue classes that are underenrolled.
And, despite their reduced numbers, grammar schools still provide academic success out of all proportion to the number of students they educate.
Funding there is based on the number of students in a school.
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Tony Blair should look and see the number of students who go to university and then do not get a good job afterwards.
Another statistic to emerge is that there has been an 11.5% increase in the number of students wanting to take a gap year.
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