So any fall in student numbers will mean a sharp drop in income, and this will put the viability of many vital courses, including foreign languages, education and computer studies, at risk, leading to potential job losses of more than 10,000 university staff.
VICE News examined prison inspection reports and used FOI requests to discover that many prisons do not run vital courses that IPP prisoners have been asked to complete.
In order to compete on the world education stage with China, much less Russia and EE, this country must start streamlining and polishing the way we get the attention of our schoolchildren and infect them with enthusiasm for science, math and the other vital courses of study for the future of our economy.
Course assessment was based on active class participation, individual student presentations, and weekly reading assessments A vital component of the course was faculty lectures.
There is, of course, a vital role for applied research - but not at the expense of pure research, without which there wouldn't be anything to apply.
Keene first made his mark in 1984 with the EP "Places that Are Gone," and he's remained a vital artist over the course of the last quarter-century, releasing such fine albums as "Based on Happy Times," "Ten Years After," and "Crashing the Ether," not to mention side projects with artists like Robert Pollard.
Cheap energy is, of course, a vital ingredient in the continued economic growth of developing countries, but the implications of rising coal production for CO2 emissions and global warming are profound.
Establishing a powerful legacy is, of course, a vital outcome of any major games.
MEQs often form a vital component of end-of-course assessments in higher education.
Inspiring and experienced speakers are a vital ingredient of an MBA course.
