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As with other university programmes, the relative usefulness of an MBA programme is hard to measure.
ECONOMIST: The MBA, changing and static
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For this reason, opponents of racial preference have launched an assault on university preference programmes, both in the courts and at the political level with statewide referendums.
ECONOMIST: Affirmative action
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The manuals are also expected to function as future references for students who will eventually create their own radio programmes for the university campus and external communities.
UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES
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The study showed that during the 1970s, an economics professor from a random university, outside the top 25 programmes, would double his research productivity by moving to Harvard.
ECONOMIST: Why do economists spend valuable time blogging?
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Although the problems of growth are vastly different in magnitude in the global South than in the global North, the benefits of international relationships and inter-university seminars, workshops and training programmes has been hugely successful and mutually so to boot.
UNESCO: Purpose/Objectives of the Chair/UNITWIN Network
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They also have subsidised radio and television programmes, special schools and university courses, and their own parliament.
ECONOMIST: Norway
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The chancellor also told MPs that the government aimed to create "new university technical colleges" and boost apprenticeship programmes.
BBC: Budget 2011: George Osborne aims to 'fuel' growth
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They questioned the dean of the university about his staff and their research programmes - but he refused their demand for a private interview, the first of its kind, Mr Amin said.
BBC: Iraq: UN finds no banned weapons
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Testifying to Congress recently, Tara O'Toole of the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health said that anti-terrorism programmes have concentrated chiefly on the threat posed by conventional explosives or chemical weapons.
ECONOMIST: Biowarfare could be the worst terrorist threat of all
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But studies of these programmes offer only lukewarm support, according to David Bell of the University of Stirling and David Blanchflower of Dartmouth College.
ECONOMIST: The crunch may entrench unemployment
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He did not rule it out, but said they would lose a lot of public funding - for teaching, "possibly" for research, for capital programmes - "so it would be a very serious step for any university to take".
BBC: University funding plans delayed again