For now the app is also iPad-exclusive, and though a few of these educational institutions are giving the hardware away for free, for other students who don't have such a luxury it's an added layer of cost — and an expensive one at that.

The closeness this system cultivates is reinforced by the institution of "advisory" classes Teachers meet with students in groups of 25, five mornings a week, for open-ended discussions of everything from homework problems to bad Saturday-night dates.

By doing odd jobs for local institutions.

"We realized in the mid-1970s that it was missing," says Effie Kapsalis, head of the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

A letter written by Charles Darwin in 1875 has been returned to the Smithsonian Institution (檔案館) by the FBI after being stolen twice.

They try to develop their skills through close supervision and organized activities, and teach children to question authority figures and navigate elite institutions.

System institutions are operating very efficiently based on this analysis, raising the question of the value of pursuing a broad scale outsourcing initiative.

Do some strategies give children more advantages than others in institutions? Probably they do.

Whether this is right, and if so where and when the ecological axe will fall, is hard to determine with any precision—which is why governments and financial institutions are only beginning to bring such risks into their economic calculations.

Some top institutions like Yale seem to provide first-generation students with more support than they actually need.

Our support structure was more like: ‘You are going to get through Yale; you are going to do well,' he said, hinting at mentors ( ' , 導師 ), staff, and professors who all provided significant support for students who lacked confidence about belonging at such a top institution.

Museums and other institutions of informal learning may be better suited to teach this skill than elementary and secondary schools.

Many large institutions keep this kind of data secret—or at least make it incredibly difficult to find.

It's not only the selective and elite institutions that provide those opportunities for a small subset of this population, Rubinoff said, adding that a majority of first-generation undergraduates tend toward options such as online programs, two-year colleges, and commuter state schools.

If we can help to direct students to more of these types of campuses and help students to understand them to be realistic and accessible places, have them apply to these schools at greater frequency and ultimately get in and enroll, we are going to raise the success rate, Rubinoff said, citing a variety of colleges ranging from large state institutions to smaller private schools.

Higher education institutions are, under federal law, required to report graduation rates, but these reports typically only include Pell recipient number—not necessarily rates specific to first-generation students.

Despite this problem, many students are still drawn to these institutions—and two-year schools in particular.

True, not all U.S.students can match theperformance of their foreign counterparts, but the American institutions do offer students from rich and poor families alike the chance to realize their full potential.

For all their troubles, the United States’ 3,500 institutions were flooded with more than half a million students from 193 countries last year.

A recent article in The Harvard Crimson noted the shocking growth of Harvard's public relations arm in the last five years and it questioned whether a focus on risk management and avoiding controversy was really the best outward-looking face of this great institution.

F) Today nearly 70 percent of graduating seniors go off to college, including two-year and four-year institutions.

Since then, several academic institutions have begun to require IDPs for post docs And in June, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Biomedical Research Workforce Working Group recommended that the NIH require IDPs for the approximately 32,000 postdoctoral researchers they support.

In 2010,the Institution of Mechanical Engineers identified three principal emerging population groups across the world, based on characteristics associated with their current and projected stage of economic development.

In order to begin tackling the challenge, the Institution recommends that: The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation work with the international engineering community to ensure governments of developed nations put in place programmes that transfer engineering knowledge, design know-how, and suitable technology to newly developing countries

At least four institutions - the University of Maryland, Oklahoma Christian University, Abilene Christian and Freed-Hardeman- have announced that they will give the devices to some or all of their students this fall.

Because so many of our modern technologies and services depend on oil, nations, corporations, and institutions that control the trade in oil exercise extraordinary power

Judson College, a 350-student institution in Alabama, has offered students a three-year option for 40 years.

Another risk: the new campus schedules might eventually produce less revenue for the institution and longer working hours for faculty members

Students may choose among 6,000 public, private, nonprofit, for profit, or religious institutions of higher learning.

The most recent comparative data on the performance of universities and research institutions in Australia, Canada, USA and UK shows that, from a relatively weak starting position, the UK now leads on many indicators of commercialisation activity.

These same universities are also the institutions producing the greatest share of PhD?graduates, science citations, patents and licence income

fair distribution of funding for universities and research institutions

Spread their influence among top research institutions

Humanistic disciplines are seriously underfunded, not just by the government and the foundations but by academic institutions themselves.

Humanists are usually among the lowest-paid faculty members at most institutions and are often lightly regarded because they do not generate grant income and because they provide no obvious credentials (資質) for most nonacademic careers

But the idea that institutions or their students must decide between humanities and science is false.

"Our support structure was more like: ‘ You are going to get through Yale; you are going to do well, '" he said, hinting at mentors, staff, and professors who all provided significant support for students who lacked confidence about " belonging" at such a

"with my institution and teaching load,I don't have postdocs and grad students," says Terry McGlynn, a tropical biologist at California State University, Dominguez hills.

I use the term "low-tier" cautiously, because GSU is a well-regarded research institution that attracts high quality professors and faculty from all over the country.

since it's a government-operated institution, things don't move very fast.