As of September, several universities in Germany and Austria were offering credit for the courses and Colorado State and University of Washington were preparing to do so, though students at University of Washington were going to be required to pay a fee and also do some extra work with a University of Washington instructor.
Dr. Faust said edX has been producing online courses at a slower pace than competitors such as the for-profit Coursera, which produces classes from 62 institutions including Duke University, the University of Pennsylvania and the National University of Singapore so it can focus on engagement and quality.
The problem, according to a recent study and survey by Jennifer Lawless of American University and Richard Fox of Loyola Marymount University, is that so few choose to run.
Even the three institutions whose instructors teach those online courses Duke University, University of Pennsylvania and University of California, Irvine so far don't plan to award credit to students who complete the massive open online courses, known as MOOCs.
Created by Ruth Schulz and her team of researchers at the University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology, each of these so-called Lingodroids constructed their special language after navigating their way through a labyrinthine space.
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And the girls, three of them university students, are so silly: dreaming non-stop of love and marriage, practising astrology, obsessed by the men they never, or hardly ever, are allowed to see but with whom they chirp like crickets throughout the night on their mobile phones.
Mr. EDWARDS: Well, I have to tell you, I--I'm now not in Washington anymore, and looking at it from the outside, and I'm now running a poverty center in North Carolina, at the University of North Carolina, so it's easy to see why people feel the way they do about Washington sometimes.
In addition to the Himalayan glacier controversy, investigations by the IPCC, University of East Anglia and Penn State University are still ongoing into the so-called Climategate scandal, in which thousands of e-mails between senior IPCC scientists have given rise to concerns about inappropriate data manipulation and censoring of opposing scientific views with respect to climate change.
The danger is that the new plans will mostly restrict the choices of youngsters who would prefer to work and pick up an education in the university of life, and are perfectly capable of doing so, while leaving the needier hard core untouched.
"There were a couple of gene patents that were worth a lot of money, so all of a sudden every university and every biotech company spent a fortune on patenting genes, " says Venter.
Michael Froomkin, professor of law at the University of Miami, is not so sure.
So the University of Virginia study was able to compare the two approaches.
The highest proportion of students drawn from deprived areas was the University of Paisley, where 34% of students were from so-called "low participation neighbourhoods".
At the same time we have greatly expanded the rewards for not working so much so that University of Chicago economist Casey Mulligan estimates that half of the employment we are experiencing is because we are paying people not to work.
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For years, journalism education in the U.S. aspired towards the empirical certainties of social science, and it did so because the expansion of university education demanded that nontraditional subjects genuflect to the power of scientific enquiry.
Chris Lowe, director of the university's Institute of Biotechnology (whose research has so far spawned four companies) applauds the government's aim of encouraging start-ups.
Australians who wanted to study their own literature at university, for instance, could not do so until 1962, when the University of Sydney set up the first full chair in Australian literature.
Mr. Criminale, an information technology specialist at the University of Washington, likes his Tekos so much he reserves them for special occasions.
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It seems she revealed in a speech at the University of Denver in October that the so-called CIA "annex" in Benghazi was being used to detain and interrogate jihadists from around the region.
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Enrolling such pupils could boost overall attainment: some research finds that an undergraduate from a lacklustre school will outperform someone with the same entry grades from an outstanding school, although Geoff Parks of the University of Cambridge says it is not so there.
Mr. DAN SCHNUR (Politics, University of Southern California): At least so far, it doesn't look like there's a lot of public support for it or likelihood for its passage.
Some speculate that the ball in use today is "juiced-up, " and a formal study is being conducted for Major League Baseball at the University of Massachusetts to determine if that is so.
Still, at 25 he held the chair of Greek at Sydney University, and so became the youngest professor in what was then the British empire (and rather cross that Friedrich Nietzsche, whose philosophic works he admired, had become a professor at an even earlier age).
Bristol Rovers has reached a deal with University of the West of England (UWE) and Sainsbury's so it can build a new stadium on university ground.
Signalling warmer relations between America and Lebanon , the visiting president of the American University of Beirut is to take up residence the first to do so since 1984 when one of his predecessors was assassinated.
Thus far, we've really on a workforce of about 23, 000 here in -- at the university in Iowa City, we're looking at layoffs of about 130 from our hospitals and none so far from the university itself.
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Prof Zehra Sayers of Sabanci University in Istanbul says Sesame is so valuable that it cannot be allowed to fail.
The university will take control at the end of May so the Northcott can go ahead with its summer and winter programmes.
So a team at the University of Limerick in Ireland evolved new signal-timing patterns that minimise the build-up of the disabling charge.
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