"There is a real danger that this review will pave the way for higher fees and a market in prices that would see poorer students priced out of more prestigious universities and other students and universities consigned to the 'bargain basement', " said NUS president, Wes Streeting.
The study found the biggest decline in language provision had been at the newer universities and that language study was becoming increasingly concentrated in the older universities and among students from more affluent backgrounds.
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Shortly after the speech, Mr. Karzai issued a formal decree banning foreign forces from entering Afghan universities and detaining students.
In America the rise of PhD teachers' unions reflects the breakdown of an implicit contract between universities and PhD students: crummy pay now for a good academic job later.
Will this mean that state universities lose students and professors to their private competitors?
The NOvA experiment is a collaboration of 180 scientists, technicians and students from 20 universities and laboratories in the U.S and another 14 institutions around the world.
The results highlight the challenges of promoting and protecting IP in American universities and technology companies, and illustrate why universities need to increase their efforts to educate students on what IP is and why it matters.
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"The nation's colleges and universities have become less affordable for students and their families since the early 1990s, " it said.
In several conference calls with our executive committee in December and January, we outlined our financial models and the new realities for most private colleges and universities--declining numbers of students paying full tuition, an increasing discount rate and stiffer competition from public universities.
Part of the solution may lie in the city's two universities and 42, 000 students.
"I agree that we need to support our best colleges and universities and encourage the best students to come here, " she said.
Birmingham and Newcastle universities allow students at some poorly performing state schools to fill in a second application form, describing their difficult circumstances.
I'd expect protest rallies by New York's municipal workers, and students at state and city universities, if the vise tightens further on tuition and layoffs.
Shadow education secretary Tim Yeo told BBC Radio 4's World This Weekend that Labour's top-up fee proposals would damage universities' independence and burden students with debt.
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This week the group, which includes lecturers and students from Princeton and Rice Universities and an employee from the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, was intending to present a paper based around their SDMI challenge work to the Fourth International Information Hiding Workshop in Pittsburgh.
Dale Nordquist, associate director of the Center for Farm Financial Management at the University of Minnesota, said Missouri's practical approach to understanding farm finances is relatively uncommon at large, land-grant universities where both students and professors are more likely to concentrate on theoretical approaches as opposed to practical solutions, and the use of personal data can still be seen as an intrusion.
This Act will help by requiring colleges and universities to provide information to students about dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking and improve data collection about these crimes.
The MARSballoon project, which was organised by Bristol-based aerospace company Systems Engineering and Assessment (SEA), involved six local schools and two universities, and was aimed at helping the students take an interest in a career in the UK space industry.
On the agenda was the exchange of diverse experiences and positive practices, the creation of mechanisms to reinforce the management of educational systems, and the consolidation of dialogue among universities, professors, students, media and society at national and regional levels.
An even more innovative approach would be to move funding away from institutions entirely, effectively privatizing them (and achieving all the gains from chartered universities), and giving funds to students.
In order to make real inroads at colleges and universities, devices must be accessible for students, and adopted by their professors and administrators.
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Recognizing this unmet need for better understanding of outside cultures, Congress increased support for two federal programs, Title VI and Fulbright-Hays, which enable American universities to immerse students in the cultures and languages of friends and foes around the world.
Meantime, at four-year public colleges and universities, tuition and fees for in-state students rose 4.8% in the 2012-13 academic year, the smallest increase since 2000-01, according to the College Board.
With the federal government and states looking for ways to trim their budgets, appropriations to colleges and universities are likely to be scaled back as students and institutions sort through what they want from a university education and how much is it worth.
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Every year thousands of the best and brightest students leave to study at universities in Europe and America.
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State colleges and universities even have controlled prices to students somewhat by throwing more tax dollars at institutions and through private fund raising.
Universities should nurture robust students and companies should send more employees abroad for training and work.
We're the home to the world's best colleges and universities, where more students come to study than any place on Earth.
Both students and universities are realizing that private communications are more productive.
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This is a promising example of outreach work, but what about the impact of MOOCs on traditional colleges and universities and their on-campus students?
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