He has chaired University Challenge since 1994, where his capacity for mispronouncing Italian has led to frequent complaints.
Indeed, there have been so many mistakes, fans could have been forgiven for thinking they were watching University Challenge.
The University of Manchester has become only the second team to retain the title of University Challenge champion in the programme's history.
The top show on BBC Two was a repeat of the Porridge Christmas special and Christmas University Challenge, which both peaked with a 2.2 million audience.
Projects which have already been supported by the University Challenge and Science Enterprise Challenge include a sewer robot - resembling a giant, jointed brush - developed by Durham Pipeline Technology, set up by Durham University.
Aston is upbeat for their opening league game after picking up an emphatic 82-0 win over Leeds Met University in the Challenge Cup.
It is hoped the e-university will meet the challenge of US universities like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Stanford in California, which offer virtual degrees.
At Northeastern University's Husky Startup Challenge Demo Day, he took home first prize for KrystalBoard, a liquid crystal-based writing board.
At Northeastern University's Husky Startup Challenge Demo Day, he took home the "audience favorite" prize for KrystalBoard, a liquid crystal-based writing board.
The system will be an unprecedented platform to help students and faculty meet the challenge of our university's motto, 'Why Not Change the World?
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However, the High Court subsequently ruled that existing students with full immigration status would be allowed to continue their studies and the university would be able to challenge the Home Office's decision.
ThermoShield, one of over a dozen student-run companies vying for attention at Northeastern University's Husky Startup Challenge, went the latter route by slipping a Peltier element inside a slim plastic shell.
The role of race in college and graduate school admissions remains controversial in the U.S. In fact, the Supreme Court is currently taking up a challenge to a University of Texas program that considers race in its admission decisions.
The university could still mount a legal challenge to the UKBA's ruling.
In addition to accepting displaced students, university officials also took on the challenge of housing and managing the largest field hospital in the United States.
But given that universities have been sued at least 22 times since 1989 with virtually every challenge leading to the university either settling and withdrawing its code or losing in court why do speech codes persist?
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Other 2011 Grand Challenge Scholars from Duke University and Olin College pursued projects to restore urban infrastructure, improve technology for wind and solar energy, create educational software for middle school students, and develop low-cost cancer diagnostics for developing countries.
Irritated by the waffle that often surrounds discussions of energy and climate change, Mr MacKay, a physicist at Cambridge University, has chosen to illustrate the challenge of breaking our fossil-fuel addiction armed only with the laws of physics, reams of publicly available information and the back of an envelope.
Richard Baldwin of the University of Geneva and Paul Krugman of Princeton challenge this assumption.
About 170 teams from across New York University officially entered the 2012-2013 Entrepreneurs Challenge, organizers said.
Incumbent President Jakaya Kikwete is expected to win the presidential poll, although he faces a strong challenge from former priest Willibrod Slaa and university professor Ibrahim Lipumba, among six opposition candidates.
Lead researcher Dr Anne Lazenbatt, from the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Queen's University Belfast, said medical staff faced a tough challenge and needed support when making such hard decisions.
The International University of Monaco has just handed a particularly tough challenge to 24 MBA students enrolled on a marketing management course -- develop the concept for a new board game.
Twenty-five years ago Santa Clara University Professors Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner wrote The Leadership Challenge, a primer on how to make extraordinary things happen in organizations by helping leaders perform their personal best.
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These new ventures will no doubt challenge the traditional four-year residential, physical university model.
The announcement from the FutureLearn project sees the first major challenge from the UK, headed by the Open University, which has pioneered distance learning.
"From the start of secondary school, young people, including both high ability and struggling readers, tend to read books that do not challenge them enough, " said Prof Topping, from Dundee University's school of education.
This is a role traditionally reserved for university students, but in many ways, online groups are better suited to challenge the status quo.
The global challenge especially confronts America's oldest B-school, the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, ranked number five on our list of U.S. business schools.
The global challenge especially confronts the nation's oldest B-school, the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, ranked number five on our list of U.S. business schools.
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