A vanguard group of universities is giving corporations greater access to ivory-tower laboratories — for a price.
BPP is in talks to team up with those charities to offer what its chief executive, Carl Lygo, calls "a sustainable model for high quality future provision".Does that mean BPP is in the vanguard of a big expansion of private university education?
US colleges and universities have been in the vanguard.
Learning never stops and as the economy's demand for higher skills rises, universities should be in the vanguard when it comes to providing new opportunities.
Mr. Assad once called the university "a rallying point for the vanguard of Syrian and Arab young people".
Hadn't her mother always told her that she belonged at home? "There were many sleepless nights," said Ms. Domínguez, 54, a university professor and part of a vanguard of women seeking to run for mayor in a country where machismo, corruption and an insider political culture have kept them out.
By providing academics like Professor Hart a bridge to the business world, M.I.T. is in the vanguard of a movement involving a handful of universities nationwide that work closely with investors to ensure that promising ideas are nurtured and turned into successful start-ups.
The point is that a self-respecting university will need to be in the vanguard of pioneering and promoting the revolutionary transition, not the forlorn-hope rearguard defending the incumbency.
In the 1980s, universities and legal scholars were at the vanguard of the speech codes movement, which argued that in an effort to combat racist, sexist, and other offensive speech, the definition of harassment needed to be broadened to include anything that might offend.
Abu Issa and the other Islamist detainees soon formed the view that they had been moved to the Aleppo prison for a reason – to instil a harder ideological line into the university students, who back then were at the vanguard of the uprising in Syria's largest city.
Properly resourced art and design schools are essential to any civilised society, and students like those who peacefully occupied the Slade last December have been in the vanguard of the protests against public spending cuts and the increase in university tuition fees.
