Although poor, he went on to study power system automation through correspondence classes at the Shanghai University of Electric Power.

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He was homeschooled, sometimes, and he took correspondence classes and studied informally with university professors.

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The criminals responsible for stealing the private email correspondence of climate scientists at the University of East Anglia seem to be pursuing a similar strategy.

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Immediately after the institute, which confers bachelor's and master's degrees on its 8, 500 students, changed its name to the Ariel University Center of Samaria, Tamir pledged to cut off its government funding and to ignore any correspondence with the institution if it referred to itself as a university center.

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The university rightly asserted that much of my private correspondence is just that and not subject to release.

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Looking for more, he sent Brooklyn correspondence indicating that he had been wait-listed at the University of North Carolina School of Law.

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The archive, which includes manuscripts, programmes, newspaper cuttings and press releases, financial documents, correspondence and audition notes, offers a "comprehensive representation of Willy Russell's work to date", a university spokesman said.

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