Under his proposal, the university would drop the requirement that applicants submit scores from the SAT I, an aptitude test, but continue to require the so-called SAT II, which tests students in subject areas, including English, math, history, science and foreign languages.
The minimum stipend for Research Council students has increased to £9000 in 2003-04 and is set to rise further, to £12,000 by 2005-6, with up to £13,000 on offer to students in subject areas such as the physical sciences where there is a shortage of PhD candidates.
The rigorous, English-style curriculum, which gives students in-depth subject knowledge, is also cited as an advantage.
The fourth-grade national assessment, he said, tests students in subjects like electrical circuitry, the difference between plant and animal cells, and the formation of rocks.
He also revealed that a new apprenticeship in "space engineering", which will train students in subjects such as satellite technology, will launch in January.
In Cambridge we have been taking research ideas from local voluntary and public sector organisations and matching them where possible with undergraduate and masters dissertation students in subjects like sociology, social psychology, geography, public health.
In 1770, the first commercial upper secondary schools was founded under Empress Maria Theresia with the goal to educate 15 20 year-old students in subjects such as Business, Economics and Accounting (Stock 2014).
PhD students in subjects with a tourism or environmental focus study with ICER staff, and undergraduates can sign up for ecotourism field courses that are conducted both in Australia and as far away as Nepal and Ecuador.
On the issue of the options, the report authors said: "With regard to option two, it appears that EU law might allow places to be reserved for Scottish students in subjects such as Education and Medicine, where there is a need to train students to undertake a particular job, but such arrangements would not apply to more general subjects.
Its middle school was the first public school in the nation to install a SMALLab embodied learning environment in which digital games are projected onto a classroom floor and engage students in learning subject matter ranging from fractions to prefixes.
That a third of the nation's eighth graders can write with proficiency may not sound like much, but it is the best performance by eighth-grade students in any subject tested in the national assessment in the last three years.
