Others worry that urban research could, just like other fields of study, start to put number-crunching ahead of other important questions.

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For the programme and fields of study offered please refer to ANNEX II of the project document (PDF - 466 KB).

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Differential tuition could work similarly to scholarships in terms of incentivizing students to choose certain fields of study, said Brewer, a labor economist who studies education policy.

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Regardless of the statistics, I, for one, am preparing my own adult children as they graduate college that regardless of their fields of study, they should hone their entrepreneurial skills.

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Fields cookies is like saying: A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine has shown that people who limit their athletic activities to curling and badminton are less likely to require knee operations than people who play contact sports.

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"Many would like to study in these fields but there are simply not enough places, " says Anan Itchayapruks, head of human resources development at the Petroleum Authority of Thailand (PTT).

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