Sentences with phrase «academic ability alone»

The SMF findings come in a report assessing a proposal by the Sutton Trust that children should be admitted to independent schools on academic ability alone, rather than on their family's capacity to pay fees.

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They may need to discover and to re-tell a unifying story of the country Of course, this runs against the academic grain, which nurtures what it believes to be a healthy contempt for the nation (let alone its historic spiritual culture) and a self - protecting indifference to the local community In America, where unbalanced individuality and unbalanced diversity seem sacred, the wildness of history is blowing at cyclone force, and the ability to cope with it seems to be a dying art.

«It is important to note that this research is not aimed at attempting to improve individual's ability to accurately assess academic performance from face alone, but rather emphasise how prevalent and limiting the attractiveness bias is.»

Our unrivalled experience has taught us that academic qualifications alone are not enough, but ability to write is also equally important.

Options (b) and (c) are hardly within the ability of any lawyer, let alone a new graduate, to change by themselves, regardless of how well - intentioned the faculty may be to encourage them — but I do believe that the potential of the academic environment (students and professors) with assistance of government, the profession, and the public quite likely can work together to design better solutions that we have come up with to date.

There is growing consensus that those abilities — imparted through stand - alone activities and integrated into academic lessons through collaborations and project - based learning — are key to positive school climates.