As we enter into a technological era where an increasing amount of universities are providing online degrees, one's ability to think inside and outside of the box is going to be a crucial component in the hiring process.
More pragmatic motivations, like the expense of large amounts of university's network bandwidth being absorbed by students' proclivity for online entertainment, are also driving the renewed university efforts.
"$8,000," she replied, the total amount of her university fees.
While a number of other universities are now using iTunes to distribute class-specific content to their students, including Duke University, Drexel Universitys School of Education and the University of Michigan School of Dentistry, Stanford is the first to make a substantial amount of recorded university events available to the public at large.
In most cases, the monetary amounts of the fee changes are trivial, but it causes greater confusion and headaches for students and parents in an already convoluted process and requires a tremendous amount of the university's time and resources that could be used for educational purposes.
The results of the RAE have a direct impact on the amount of money universities receive from the funding council Hefce.
After that, the quality of research - and hence the amount of funding universities receive from the government - will be judged largely on the basis of statistics such as grant income and contracts.
"We want to ensure every health-related innovation developed in campus laboratories is made available in the developing world at the lowest possible cost, and increase the amount and impact of university research on neglected diseases," he said.
"You can't measure the amount of exposure the university got this weekend," said Lew Perkins, the university's director of athletics.
She said the amount of money the university demanded students have access to bore no relation to the real costs of study.
