Most of them still try to combine teaching with research.

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The government would champion "excellence in teaching" and try to attract more "inspirational graduates" into teaching.

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Google is encouraging programmers to try their hands at exploiting weaknesses in Jarlsberg as a way of teaching them how to avoid similar vulnerabilities in their own code.

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Under the plans, there will be at least 10 brand new schools across the five boroughs, seven of which will be academies - independent schools funded by the state that use new ways of teaching and the latest equipment to try to raise standards.

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If you want more teachers so that you can have smaller classes you need to tear down barriers to entry so more people can try their hand at teaching.

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The teaching of science stimulates the local economy as farmers become more likely to try out new crops, such as different types of vegetables, or fruit for export.

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In fact, kids are often the first consumers to try out advanced messaging services, so much so that they are increasingly responsible for teaching their parents about them and getting them to become users.

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Improving facilities, teaching quality and research takes money, and while schools theoretically could "aggressively try to increase their efficiency, reduce costs and get better by substitution rather than by growing expenditures, they don't do this, " Ehrenberg says.

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