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The online university market is currently dominated by networks set up by leading universities in the United States.
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The centre is part of the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, set up by the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth.
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It was set up by a group at the universities of Oxford and Yale, and links 40, 000 participants with data gathered by Kepler, another NASA space telescope that is specifically designed to hunt for planets.
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Free schools can be set up by groups of parents, teachers, charities, businesses, universities, trusts, and religious or voluntary groups.
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Free schools are set up by groups of parents, teachers, charities, businesses, universities, trusts, religious or voluntary groups, but funded directly by central government.
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Britain, for example, tried for two decades to channel many of the less academic school-leavers into polytechnics that had been set up to provide degrees equal in quality to those offered by the universities, but with a more technical and vocational bent.
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