Pencoed College, near Bridgend, has announced it is discontinuing under-subscribed agricultural courses from the end of this academic year.
And according to NACE, the National Association of Colleges and Employers, for the first time in this academic year, college hiring is up.
The Welsh government does not currently collect data on this but said it was gathering more detailed information about absences from this academic year.
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Its nondegree executive-education courses have about 1, 000 participants this academic year, about one-third the size of its Singapore program and one-fifth the figure in Fontainebleau.
So far in this academic year it has less than half the number of new students it had in the previous year, figures obtained by the BBC suggest.
At the start of this academic year, it was introduced for children in their first year of secondary school, and will be rolled out year-on-year until it is implemented for all secondary years.
But as the recent controversy at University College in London showed earlier this academic year, there are considerable tensions and debates among Muslims about the degree to which science challenges fundamental tenets of Islam.
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At the start of this academic year, the Scottish government introduced the Curriculum for Excellence, aimed at giving teachers more freedom and make lessons less prescriptive for children between the ages of three and 18.
Our research showed that had there been no uncertainty about the future of the school, had pre and post-school care been available in the village and had the school been reverted back to P1 to P7 this academic year, the roll would have been 26, not seven.
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This year an academic's essay cast doubt on Asia's economic miracle, pricking any unquestioning confidence in the region's prospects.
Which is all a bit academic for this year's cohort as all they will be interested in is their own results and where to get that hug from someone other than the immediate family, especially if they only have that gradeometer for company.
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"Since the Masters course doesn't finish until June of next year this prohibits me from continuing in the next academic year, " she said.
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In the run-up to the first election in yet another new district earlier this year, one academic, Effendi Ghazali, was invited onto a local radio talk show to offer a bit of civic education.
For those enrolled in secondary education, two courses at this level of schooling are completed in each academic year which corresponds to a period of ten months.
Two star Harvard basketball players already had to sit out this year voluntarily in actions from an unrelated academic cheating scandal which made news last summer. ( Bloomberg).
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They reopen this week, along with state schools, where the academic year was delayed to prepare for the flu.
This type of academic frolic would be harmless fun in a good year for law firm hiring.
Beginning in the 2013-14 academic year, these schools will provide students with this information in one easy-to-understand format.
"Frank Sinatra: The Man, The Music, The Legend, " a three-day conference at Hofstra University, is billed as the first academic conference dedicated to the entertainer, who died this year.
Unlike last year, when China sent its defence minister, Liang Guanglie, to the Shangri-La Dialogue, this year the highest-ranking Chinese delegate was a senior military academic, Lieutenant-General Ren Haiquan.
This means that students and universities have the certainty to plan for the next academic year, and the government's higher education policies remain the same.
Academic Germaine Greer, who walked out of Celebrity Big Brother earlier this year, accused the show of adopting "superior" bullying tactics and treating the contestants "irresponsibly".
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It's going to have to collect information about how students are doing in a particular year and over the course of an academic career, and make this information available to teachers so they can use it to improve the way they teach.
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But for a lot of schools that are too small or academic to contend for the big matchups that come after New Year's, this bit of gridiron is the only post-season play to shoot for.
Most universities will have to do this by February or March next year, as prospectuses for students applying for the 2012-13 academic year need to be published by April 2011.
As chronicled earlier this year, data supports that Notre Dame clearly holds its student-athletes to higher academic standards than what is true at other schools which limits the pool of talented high school players they will attract.
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This week, French President Nicolas Sarkozy demanded the release of 23-year old Clotilde Reiss, a French academic reportedly arrested last week on charges of spying.
This year's nobel laureate for economics, Edmund S. Phelps, a professor at Columbia, won academic fame for studying the tradeoff between inflation and unemployment, ultimately concluding that there really isn't one.
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