noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a college/university course
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students who fail their college courses
a school/university term
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The school term was about to start.
a school/university/college library
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She was studying at the college library.
a university city (= with a university )
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Uppsala is a university city.
a university department
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University departments are generally judged by their research quality.
a university/college degree
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For many jobs you need to have a university degree.
a university/college/school student
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How many college students are politically active?
company/hospital/university etc policy
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It is not company policy to offer refunds.
Department For Innovation, Universities, and Skills, the
school/college/university fees
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She paid for her college fees by taking a part-time job as a waitress.
state university
university/college education
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Do you have a university education?
university/college/school admissions
university/college/school entry
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Japan has one of the highest rates of college and university entry in the world.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
local
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Alison Petch has undertaken research in a range of social policy areas, in both local authority and university settings.
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Start by taking a course or two at a local university .
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There is an increasing number of local authorities, universities and schools wishing to try out the artist-in-residence idea.
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Rin-Tin-Tin General Assembly, and to baffled vets at the local university .
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About 80 representatives of local industry, universities , colleges and schools attended the event.
new
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A new generation of university teachers will be needed around 1995.
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At the and of the school year, she packed her bags and followed Jean Ardley to her new university .
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He resisted, however, the notion that the polytechnics were merely a new breed of university .
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He hugged hundreds of babies, shook thousands of hands and cut ribbons at new universities , high-tech factories and a hospital.
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Essex, one of the new universities born of the last years of Macmillan's rule, was occupied.
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What would have amounted to a whole new university went down the congressional tube.
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A representative from the new joint university college on Teesside will be on hand to answer questions.
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At a new universities festival in Bradford he had run into Richard Neville.
public
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Analysts say this trend is even more remarkable because public universities run open admission policies and do not charge tuition.
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Parents also pay substantial portions of state and local taxes that support public schools and universities .
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Traditionally, public university degrees have carried far greater social prestige.
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The actual tuition at a public university averaged $ 2, 982, according to the Department of Education.
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The freeway booms and public university booms are over.
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Since 1939, the University of California has won 31 Nobel Prizes, more than any other public university system.
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The country's 32 public universities have long been a recruiting pool for leftist guerrilla armies.
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Many states already have options that allow high school juniors and seniors to take courses at public colleges and universities for credit.
■ NOUN
admission
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The data for university admissions in 1992 is the earliest available to us with the necessary detail.
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The pupil also takes to the prospective employer or the university admissions tutor the raw scores of exam results.
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She now works in the university admissions office.
course
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Her parents did not seem to mind that he had no qualifications and had not finished his university course .
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In some of my university courses , I have asked students to describe how they decide whether or not some one is normal.
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The university course was, in a sense, another field of discovery for Stan.
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This classification fits some university courses well, but it is now inadequate for the system as a whole.
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You should contact relevant industrial organisations if you wish to seek sponsorship for your university course .
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The timing was opportune because Ned was able to take a year out from his university course .
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Those high failure rates make it an efficient way of screening out teenagers who might later fail a university course .
degree
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Social class 1 consists of occupations requiring a university degree or high professional equivalent.
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Many students now choose to complete an apprenticeship and then pursue a university degree to improve their job prospects.
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Those with a university degree rose by twelve percent.
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There are university degree programs that teach less on the subject than this two-character play does in a couple of hours.
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Traditionally, public university degrees have carried far greater social prestige.
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George joined the ranks of the executive high-flyers, those with university degrees , I joined in a much humbler capacity.
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For many years the essay has dominated the syllabus, from school certificate for 16 year olds to university degree examinations.
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He was a fully qualified engineer, with a university degree !
department
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One solution has been to create university departments of integrated environmental science or of earth sciences.
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Half the university departments and industries in the city are involved.
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These factors include funding sources, the employment market for successful graduates, and the costs of running university departments .
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No alternative employment within the school or other university department could be identified.
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Collaborative links exist with other university departments , with associated institutions and with overseas universities.
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Many schools of nursing, colleges and university departments now use the student-centred approach in teaching nursing knowledge and skills.
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Then we found a small house about one hundred yards from my university department .
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To liaise with the network of communication academics and university departments in different parts of the world.
education
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Only for the wealthy is there the option of paying to send their children abroad for university education .
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Major is the first Tory prime minister since Winston Churchill without a university education .
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The prospect of a university education must appear as an unattainable dream: some are successful but these are exceptional cases.
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As employers demand higher skills, students everywhere want access to a university education .
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In other words, pre-school attendance and university education are as unequally distributed today, as they were in the 1940s.
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Members still suffer for their faith, for instance, by being denied university education or worthwhile jobs.
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Mr Clare told his son he had been saving the money he would have spent on his university education for him.
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To provide a university education for her might mark her out as a favoured pupil.
lecturer
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Also cosmopolitan in outlook are a variety of traditional professions, particularly university lecturers .
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In 1904 both were given the title and status of university lecturers .
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There is a university lecturer in Roman Archaeology.
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He was a university lecturer now, a family man, respectable, boring, even.
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I was Roy Edward Burnell, a university lecturer and specialist in church architecture.
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That person may have been a university lecturer , a teacher, a receptionist, a cleaner, a waitress or anything.
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A university lecturer , for example.
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Had an undistinguished career as a university lecturer in mathematics.
library
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In college and university libraries you will often find catalogues for other collections.
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He successfully shored up a university library system that had been debilitated by Koffler.
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I took up a position in a university library after a career break.
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Just-in-time management philosophy has moved from manufacturing to the university library sector.
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Others require two bound copies, one each for the main university library and the departmental library.
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The set of theses consulted here was in the main university library .
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The way that university library budgets are calculated is changing, and there is no reliable overview of current practice.
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An early day motion has been tabled on the funding of acquisitions in university libraries .
professor
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I became acquainted with her brother Pavel Sergeevich Popov, a university professor .
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Their fathers were university professors and lawyers and accountants and advertisers who jogged around this lake in support hose.
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For example, in 1984, fewer than 3 percent of university professors were women.
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The group is composed mostly of university professors , though of every persuasion from Keynesian to libertarian to Marxist.
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He was replaced by Humberto de la Calle, 44, a university professor and barrister.
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He was, he said, a university professor .
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Thirty percent of college and university professors , it is asserted, are con men, harassers, layabouts and plagiarists.
state
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More telling are the precipitous cost increases at state universities , which account for four out of every five college diplomas.
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Today, state universities and community colleges are harnessing the Internet to teach people at distant locations.
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In California, the state university system requires that faculty members teach five courses a year.
student
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Most university students never finish their degrees.
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When the soldiers blocked university students from entering campuses the next morning, name-calling and fights broke out.
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Dissent has occurred at times among university students in attempts to radicalise dominant ideas.
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She will be sought after by university students and officers both, but she will prefer the officers.
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Protesters included many school and university students .
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The crowd of affirmative action supporters included university students , government workers, community activists and business people.
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The 21-year-old university student is believed to be the first Lurgan sportsman to win senior medals for both football and cricket.
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This perspective is also useful when examining patterns of behaviour among university students in the late 1980s.
system
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In this sense we are a microcosm of the university system as a whole.
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Since 1939, the University of California has won 31 Nobel Prizes, more than any other public university system .
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He had, in his own way, educated himself beyond the requirements of the university system .
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Most of these institutions were private, and tiny; but by 1860 twenty states had established college or university systems .
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Questions such as these have to be faced urgently if the university system is to expand as we all wish it to.
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In California, the state university system requires that faculty members teach five courses a year.
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The problem was that these developments were largely and necessarily outside the university system .
teacher
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Among the intelligentsia, hardly a voice was raised in its defence, with the exception of a few university teachers of Marxism-Leninism.
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For the most part, however, Butz remained an obscure figure among more than 1, 000 university teachers .
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A new generation of university teachers will be needed around 1995.
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Most university teachers asked this question will start talking about cutbacks and underspending.
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Roth got to know Bellow in Chicago, where Roth worked as a university teacher , finding it a lively place.
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Headmistresses and university teachers were anxious to show that their students proved as fertile as the average woman.
■ VERB
go
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We got talking and realised that we were going to the same university !
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Finally, after 20 years of living at near-poverty level, he decided to go into university teaching full time.
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I went to university at Warwick and spun out my time there till I had a novel written.
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His parents had assumed he would go to a big university , major in science, and go to medical school.
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Ponyboy hopes he will finish school and go on to university , so that he can gain qualifications and lead a better life.
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It was her boss who suggested she go on to university .
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He did not go to university but entered the Middle Temple in 1607.
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She always wanted Mikey to go on to university and become a doctor or a lawyer.
study
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They can be studied at universities or, most often these days, at colleges of further education.
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She graduated from the Gymnasium and has even studied in the university .
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Overall, four-fifths were studying at university and one-fifth were polytechnic students.
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Tsila had graduated from high school and had studied at the university .
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Two-year course students may be a little older, and have already studied drama at university level.
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Women were now studying at the university .
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If it is vocationally disadvantageous to study history at school, it must be vocationally suicidal to study the subject at university .
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When my service here is finished, I hope to return to my mathematics studies at the university .
teach
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He continued to teach in the university until his wife died, when he resumed his Fellowship and took Orders.
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She was an undergrad at Barnard and he a graduate teaching assistant at the university .
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The papacy, to maintain orthodoxy, placed restrictions on which universities could teach theology.
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I teach at the university that night, so John takes both boys.
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When you teach at a university you feel you know it all.
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Whether you teach at a university or run a market, the important thing is that you work.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
put sb through school/college/university
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I'm grateful to my wife for putting me through law school.
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He put himself through school with wages earned as a carpenter.
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He put his kids through college.
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I put my children through college doing it.
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I felt guilty thinking of my father working so hard to put me through school.
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Instead, she moved to Boston, where she worked as a waitress and put herself through school.
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Some said Pops sent his Social Security checks to his daughter to put his grandchildren through college.
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The boys were to be sent by their father, but he was able to put just one through school.
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There were stories of people putting themselves through college by working during the day and studying at night.
university-educated/well-educated/privately-educated etc
work your way through school/college/university etc
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He worked his way through college, performing menial tasks in exchange for reduced tuition.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Both my sisters are at university .
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In 1986 32% of Saudi Arabian university professors were women.
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She wants to go to university to study biology.
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the University of Chicago
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Baker also plans schemes that help industry to exploit technologies developed by universities.
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For instance, many colleges, universities and government agencies store on-line information using a system called gopher.
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In the hospital and in the university , I watched the dying and the dead.
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Most universities have some review committee that requires a statement from the researcher that adequate protection will be guaranteed for all respondents.
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Of the 34 universities contacted only 17 were able to supply the appropriate information requested.
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The allegations were confirmed in an internal university audit dated May 1996, according to a Wall Street Journal story last year.
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The first one was written by a university senior applying for a graduate trainee position with a bank.