The Tecnológico, a not-for-profit university based in Monterrey, is working with the government on a scheme to deliver upper-secondary schooling via the internet in 1,000 communities in the south.
The promise of autonomy for a university based in Newark, which the proposal calls the University of New Jersey-North, dispelled earlier rumors that the plan would shift power to a single central administration in New Brunswick.
The people involved in the investee companies were often PhDs who left university for the business world, and were sometimes proactively recruited to form companies directly from universities based on the potential of their research.
To this end, we collected data from 205 ARF patients at the Hospital São Paulo - a university based, not-for-profit, tertiary hospital - between February 1997 and November 1997.
Among the 15 training courses held in the last few years, only three were about NCDs: Training on diabetes mellitus for MoH workers, MEDCHAMPS project workshops, a TUBITAK summer course on research design on cardiology, epidemiology courses (presented 10 times by the MoH for MoH workers), biostatistics (university based), and qualitative research design (university based).
The Blair government's plan to introduce tuition fees posed a particular problem for students at the Open University, based in White's constituency, and he led protracted negotiations in 2001 to protect the interests of people studying part-time, producing an agreement that met the concerns of the OU.
A year ago, President Obama proposed a new college ranking system (partly in response to for-profit universities) based on "measures like tuition, graduation rates, debt and earnings of graduates".
The objectives of METUTECHNPARK are to promote international collaboration, networking, support innovation and entrprneurship and to create a suitable environment for technology transfer and to promote university based startups and spinoffs.
IteachTexas, begun in 2003, is the first for-profit, non-university based alternative certification program to expand across state lines, with the newly created iteachU.S. operating programs in Louisiana and Tennessee.
Its reasoning is sound: without AS grades students will be selected for university places based on less-recent GCSEs, or the notoriously unreliable predicted grades.
In the biggest shakeup of higher education since fees were introduced nearly 20 years ago, a number of university agencies could be scrapped and replaced with an Office for Students (OfS) that will rank universities based on student satisfaction, teaching quality and employment outcomes.
