The government wants more teacher training to be delivered 'on the job' instead of in university-based courses.
Meanwhile, some of the nanoscale approaches to chemical and biological threats from university-based nanotech research are gaining steam.
"People criticise university-based training rather than ward-based training, " she said.
In a series of animal experiments published over the past year, university-based neuroscientists genetically engineered mice and monkeys with different types of neurons primed to be uniquely responsive to shades of laser light, so that a single type of activity or behavior could be altered instantly without affecting anything else.
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University- or corporate-based projects are not.
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Each year, the Detroit-based university releases a list of the most unused words in the English language.
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The Los Angeles-based University of Southern California (USC), once mocked by detractors as the University of Spoiled Children, is also thriving.
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At Edinburgh University demand from Scottish-based students was up 4.3%, at St Andrews it has risen by 4.5% and Glasgow saw a 10.2% increase.
We need to come to grips with the fact that the traditional classroom-based university experience is becoming less feasible for a growing portion of the U.S. population.
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Eben Upton, the UK-based University of Cambridge professor and inventor behind the wallet-friendly PC, says he set out to create a computer so affordable that every child in Britain could have one.
The SDLP's Pat Ramsey was concerned that the minister might be deploying "social engineering" to achieve his aims regarding both Stranmillis and St Mary's University College, the Belfast-based Catholic teacher training college.
Alan Trounson at Melbourne, Australia-based Monash University, a leader in the field, says that even if a cloned baby's genome was checked gene by gene with DNA microarrays such as those made by Affymetrix (nasdaq: AFFX - news - people ), there could be no assurance that the baby would be healthy.
It was created by Dr. Laurence Kotlikoff, a Professor of Economics at Boston University, to provide an economics-based approach to financial planning.
We calculated for each university a per-student dollar figure based on state appropriations reported to the federal government for the 2007-08 fiscal year.
Carl Heneghan, Director, Centre of Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Oxford is part of a Cochrane team reviewing the effectiveness of the anti-viral drugs Tamiflu and Relenza.
The team, from the University of Nottingham and the London-based Institute of Education Knowledge Lab, looked at evidence from hundreds of academic papers, blogs and reviews from all over the globe.
The post-war expansion of university science was based on the assumption that to invest in knowledge was to invest in growth.
Using Argon-argon dating - a technique based on the decay ratio of radioactive potassium - researchers at the University of California Berkeley and the University of Glasgow have revised both the date of the dinosaur extinction 66 million years ago, and the timing of the Chicxulub asteroid impact that occurred at around the same time.
Sylvan Learning Systems, a Baltimore-based company founded by two university drop-outs, is the market leader.
The system was jointly designed and developed by the Applied Artificial Intelligence Group and the Systems Intelligence Laboratory - both based at Carlos III University in Madrid (UC3M).
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We are time-shifted back to Keynes's Cambridge of the 1930s and fast-forwarded to the Sylvan Testing Centre in Johannesburg, where students are tested by a Baltimore-based company for South African university entrance.
This UK report from the Higher Education Careers Service Unit (Hecsu) and Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services provides a detailed look at the paths taken six months after graduation - based on the cohort leaving university in 2011.
Google Developers Group, innovation-based programs at An-Najah University, and Startup Weekend events.
One such would-be magnate is Vipin Motwani, who has combined his MBA studies at Arizona State University in Phoenix with co-launching an Internet-based food enterprise.
Katherine Forsyth, an expert in the history and culture of early Celtic-speaking peoples, based at the University of Glasgow, described it as an "amazing find".
Based at Nottingham University, Professor Garvey -- whose interest in wind turbines stretches back to his school days -- began his research into compressed air storage two years ago.
The new approach described by Matthias Beller, from the University of Rostock, and colleagues uses a ruthenium-based catalyst, which can efficiently generate hydrogen from methanol at 65-95C and at ambient pressure.
Another series of laboratory-based experiments, carried out at Newcastle University, examined the behaviour of the bees.
Receiving a fellowship from the US state department, he attended Columbia University law school and was hired by a New York-based law firm.
Chris Pitt moderated a panel on results-based education with Eric Nadelstern of Columbia University, Maureen Devlin, a classroom teacher in Wayland Public Schools, and Steve Hargadon, director of the Web 2.0 Labs.
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