Once you're hired, there are other hurdles (namely, weeks of training at LRA University, learning the intricacies of each luxury brand.) The coursework is hush hush, of course, but it may be among the cushiest of educational experiences on the planet.
The senior researcher at the University of East Anglia's School of Education and Lifelong Learning interviewed a number of authors, artists and scientists in her exploration of the effects of boredom.
Ruth Northway, professor of learning disability nursing at the University of Glamorgan, said the impetus for the research came from the people with learning disabilities.
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Stefan Schaal, a professor of neuroscience and biomedical engineering at the University of Southern California, stresses the importance of life experience in learning.
Melissa was considering institutions of higher learning with a healthy party component: the University of California at Santa Barbara, the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Up to 15 full-time jobs are at risk as the University of Sussex proposes to axe some adult learning courses.
David Reynolds, a professor of education at Plymouth University, said learning Welsh had "really taken off" and that any reservations about learning the local language seemed to have disappeared.
Despite the fact that you received free tuition and on-campus employment as a result of the fact that your father is a professor at your alma mater, you are not owed anything by Lehigh University other than the provision of classes, learning resources, access to faculty and facilities in which to experience said learning and perhaps a student parking spot.
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One of the more unique aspects of the university is the way Deloitte integrates learning with giving back to the community.
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However, Dr Neil Stanley, of the University of Surrey, said sleep loss harmed spatial learning, although the brain could rise to the "spatial learning" challenge in the short-term it would struggle eventually.
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Professor Seth Grant, an expert in the molecular mechanism of learning and memory at Edinburgh University, told BBC News Online that PKM was a particular version of an enzyme called protein kinase C (PKC) that had long been implicated in learning.
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Like MyCyberTwin, Siri, originally a spin-off from Stanford University, is a mix of cognitive, self-learning software and advanced voice-recognition.
The students are participating in an annual culture and language learning trip to China through the University of Maryland's Confucius Institute.
And then there's Michael Milken's UNext, a distance-learning company that has enlisted the University of Chicago and the Columbia School of Business.
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The University of Phoenix, set up in 1989 to teach adults through a combination of old-fashioned distance learning and evening classes, is incorporating more and more e-learning into its courses, which are mostly taken by people with full-time jobs.
At the University of North Carolina at Asheville, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute offers a "Paths to Creative Retirement" weekend workshop to help people deal with identity changes in retirement, figure out how to find purpose and investigate new work opportunities.
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As well as tackling the widely-acknowledged problem of university applications coming before exam results, the report wants to create a school year with a greater continuity of learning.
Also with us, Michael Wolf, assistant professor of medicine and director of Health Literacy and Learning Program at Northwestern University.
The author of the report, Arjen Wals, UNESCO Chair of Social Learning and Sustainable Development at Wageningen University, The Netherlands, presented the publication.
Joining us now to talk about this glut of information is Michael Wolf, assistant professor of medicine, director of health literacy and learning at the Northwestern University.
The sporting event for people with learning disabilities is being hosted by the University of Bath this year and will run from 28 August to 1 September.
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This is what some of China's best and brightest call home: the teachers' housing at People's University, one of the country's top institutions of higher learning.
If broadcast flag rules and technology were in place, it could keep a university from playing part of a news program for a distance-learning course taken over the Internet, or even impose restrictions on a teacher who records a documentary to show in class, she says.
"Education is more than technical learning, " says Alfred Vernis, director of university programs at Esade.
Millions of youths, from university graduates to waiters in cafes, are learning about computers these days.
At the University of South Carolina, many professors and students are involved in Service Learning efforts.
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Consider UCLA, the University of California, Los Angeles, a prime candidate for advanced electronic learning methods if ever there was one.
Roland Zullo, a research scientist at the University of Michigan, says organized labor is rolling with the punches and learning how to survive in spite of vanishing manufacturing jobs.
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