Incoming freshmen must have at least a 2.3 GPA in core courses (up from 2.0).

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In the next academic year, the school will begin overhauling its core courses.

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Journalism instructors with work experience in developing countries or emerging democracies were then carefully selected from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America to write the syllabuses for seventeen core courses.

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Core MBA courses train business leaders to endlessly work towards maximizing these short-term returns.

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These days, as well as being a core part of most MBA courses, a series of specialist institutions have also sprung up within business schools devoted to studying hedge funds.

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The new Welsh Bac involves a core of subjects such as communication and numeracy skills and European awareness, with optional subjects from courses already on offer such as A-levels and GNVQs.

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The original plan had been for the first candidates to start courses in 2015 and take the new-look exams two years later, initially in three core subject areas - English, maths and sciences - with an extension later to history, geography and languages.

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